How Can I Best Guess the Encoding when the BOM (Byte Order Mark) is Missing?

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Maybe you can shell out to a Python script that uses Chardet: Universal Encoding Detector. It is a reimplementation of the character encoding detection that used by Firefox, and is used by many different applications. Useful links: Mozilla’s code, research paper it was based on (ironically, my Firefox fails to correctly detect the encoding of that page), short explanation, detailed explanation.

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