How to determine the encoding of text?

Question

I received some text that is encoded, but I don\'t know what charset was used. Is there a way to determine the encoding of a text file using Python? How can I detect the enc

Answer 1

If you know the some content of the file you can try to decode it with several encoding and see which is missing. In general there is no way since a text file is a text file and those are stupid ;)