File Encoding Detection

[raytc]

Is there a (64 bits) plugin, or another way to create a custom column which detects encoding of a file?

p.e. utf-8, ansi/latin1, KOI8-R or whatever encoding.

I would like to know also if a (text) file is a dos or unix file.

[mrle]

http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/EncInfo.html

[milo1012]

ansi/latin1, KOI8-R or whatever encoding

I assume you're aware of the fact that there is no reliable way to detect the difference between different ANSI code pages and OEM/DOS text?
These existing methods rely on some random statistics and fail quite often.
The only detections that work quite solid are UTF-16 and UTF-8.

You may also use PCREsearch for these encodings, though it doesn't distinguish between OEM/ANSI for the mentioned reason.

I would like to know also if a (text) file is a dos or unix file.

You mean the different line endings, a.k.a. CRLF / LF ?
You could also use PCREsearch for this, by counting the occurrences of CRLF / LF.
Create two columns with the Reg. Expressions:

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1st: \r\n
2nd: \n

and set regex<N>type to 1 for both columns and now see if:
- the number in the LF columns exceeding CRLF column: the file is probably Unix text (or binary)
- LF and CRLF columns show the same number: file is probably Windows text due to CRLF.

[raytc]

http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/EncInfo.html

Thank you milo1012 and mrle for your reply.

I like EncInfo.

I wish the plugin detected also Latin1 and Ansi 1252