Encoding Recogniser

Help determine a file's encoding by displaying it wth all supported encodings.

Encoding Recogniser will help you determine what encoding was used to write a file by displaying the file in hex or and decoded characters in any of the encodings supported by Java. This program runs under any OS, (e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/OSX/Linux/Solaris/Vista64/AIX...) so long as you have Java version 1.5 or later installed. To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user folder names) option. To run as an application, type: java.exe -jar E:\com\mindprod\encodingrecognizer\encodingrecogniser.jar adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

Changes: user selected Look and Feel, correct bug in BOM identifaction

Minimum requirements: Java 1.7+

Operating system: Java,Linux,Mac OS X,Unix,Win2000,Win7 x32,Win7 x64,WinServer,WinVista,WinVista x64,WinXP

Program URL: http://mindprod.com/applet/encodingrecogniser.html

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Special permissions

You may include the Encodings Recogniser on any CD compilation. You may not sell Encodings Recogniser. It is free.

EULA

This program is for non-military use only. For details on what that licencing restriction means and why I restricted this software that way, see http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html If you incorporate any of my code in your programs, they too must be marked for non-military use only. However it is not your responsibility to enforce that restriction.

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