Utility to determine what encoding a text file is using
This application will determine a text file encoding using visual inspection.
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Encoding
Format that defines how the values of certain types are represented, in terms of bits. Examples: American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), a 7-bit character set; and Unicode, a 16-bit character set.