Java Text File Encoding

Question

I have a text file and it can be ANSI (with ISO-8859-2 charset), UTF-8, UCS-2 Big or Little Endian.

Is there any way to detect the encoding of the file to read it pr

Answer 1

If your text file is a properly created Unicode text file then the Byte Order Mark (BOM) should tell you all the information you need. See here for more details about BOM

If it's not then you'll have to use some encoding detection library.