How to detect encoding in a markdown file using program effectively , to get same encoding as shown in notepad++ ?

Asked Jan 18 '18 at 05:19

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I have a set of markdown files to be passed to jekyll project , need to find the encoding format of them i.e UTF-8 with BOM or UTF-8 without BOM or ANSI using a program or a API .

if i pass the location of the files , the files have to be listed,read and the encoding should be produced as result .

Is there any Code or API for it ?

i have already tried the sr.CurrentEncoding for stream reader as mentioned in Effective way to find any file's Encoding but the result varies with the result from a notepad++ result .

in notepad++ , the file encoding is shown as utf-8 , but from the program , the result is ANSII .

but i should get same result from both ways , so where the problem has occurred?

edited Jan 22 '18 at 10:48

asked Jan 18 '18 at 05:19

Deepak Raj

This may help you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3825390/effective-way-to-find-any-files-encoding – Anthony McGrath Jan 18 '18 at 05:31
This is not a duplicate of the mentioned question , as i get different results from program and the notepad++ encoding . what shall i do now ? – Deepak Raj Jan 22 '18 at 10:49
Have you solved your problem? If not, have you tried using: reader.Peek(); before using: reader.CurrentEncoding; ? – Anthony McGrath Jan 23 '18 at 06:00
yes , i had used peek method but if the file does not contain any special character , ANSI and UTF-8 is not distinguishabale – Deepak Raj Jan 23 '18 at 06:32
maybe you can research how notepad++ calculates their encoding – Anthony McGrath Jan 23 '18 at 16:47

How to detect encoding in a markdown file using program effectively , to get same encoding as shown in notepad++ ?

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