Determining the encoding of a file on Mac OS X?

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How can I determine the character encoding of plain text files (such as HTML) on Mac OS X?

edited Sep 20 '22 at 18:16

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file -I {filename} worked from the link Ayaz provided. Apparently though, there is no definite way to determine the encoding.

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answered Jun 13 '10 at 08:50

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