Java : How to determine the correct charset encoding of a stream

Question

With reference to the following thread: Java App : Unable to read iso-8859-1 encoded file correctly

What is the best way to programatically determine the correct cha

Answer 1

An alternative to TikaEncodingDetector is to use Tika AutoDetectReader.

Charset charset = new AutoDetectReader(new FileInputStream(file)).getCharset();