DetectEncoding

Use heuristics to try to infer the encoding of the target text file.

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Syntax

expression.DetectEncoding(FilePath)

Parameters

The required FilePath argument is an identifier specifying a String type variable.

Return value

Type: String

📝Note

The DetectEncoding method supports files with or without BOM. the following encodings can be detected: ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-16(BE,LE).

See also

ReadText Method.

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