File Charset Detector

This is a wrapper around a Java implementation of Mozilla's automatic charset detection algorithm.

The original implementation can be found here.

Dependencies

First grab the charset-detector.jar file from the project root.

Then get the original Java implementation. Download here or just get it from the lib folder in the project.

Usage

Easy, there are three static methods: CharsetDetector.detectCharset(String filename); CharsetDetector.detectCharset(File file); CharsetDetector.detectCharset(InputStream inStream);

Calling any of those will try to guess the charset of the file and if it finds one, it returns the charset's name as a String (e.g. "UTF-8) or if no charset can be guessed, it returns "nomatch".