Re: Detecting encoding in Plain text

From: D. Starner (shalesller@writeme.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 09:20:45 EST

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    > Given any sizeable chunk of text, it ought to be possible to estimate
    > the statistical likelihood of its being in a certain
    > encoding/[language] even if it's in an unspecified 8859-* encoding.
    > It would be quite an interesting exercise, but I'd be surprised if
    > someone hasn't done it before. Perhaps someone here knows.

    http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/ has a paper on the subject
    and an implemenation in Perl. http://mnogosearch.org has an alternate
    implementation in compiled code (called mguesser).

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