How do I tell if a File is ANSI, unicode or UTF8?
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"unicode or UTF-8" ?? UTF-8 is unicode !NO! UTF-8 is not UNICODE. Yes it is !!No it is not.
And to prove it I refer to your links.........
You simply cannot say "unicode or UTF-8" just because
UTF is Unicode Transformation Format.UTF is a transfomation of UNICODE but it is not UNICODE. This is not playing with words. One of the big problems I see on these forums is people saying the Java uses UTF-8 to represent Strings but it does not, it uses UNICODE point values.
You can say "UTF-8 or UTF16-BE or UTF-16LE" because
all three are different Unicode representations. But
all three are unicode.No! They are UNICODE transformations but not UNICODE.
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So please don't play on words, I wanted to notify the
original poster that "unicode or UTF-8" is
meaningless, he/she would probably have said :
"unicode (as UTF-8 or UTF-16 or...)"You are playing with words, not me. UTF-8 is not UNICODE, it is a transformation of UNICODE to a multibyte representation - http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#14 .
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