Wishing to see text file encoding

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RonBall42
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Wishing to see text file encoding

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I would like to have a quick way to see how a text file is encoded. I recently had problems importing a text file in SQL and it was because the file was encoded UTF-16 and I needed it to be UTF-8. Took a long time to figure out the file was encoded wrong. So any of these options would help ... able to search for all files of encoding xxxx ... or a custom column showing encoding ... either would be a great addition!
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Gral
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Re: Wishing to see text file encoding

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Try EncInfo content plugin -> https://totalcmd.net/plugring/EncInfo.html
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Re: Wishing to see text file encoding

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2RonBall42
You can press F3 and then choose "Options" - to see what encoding Lister detects for the file.
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