Guessing the encoding of text represented as byte[] in Java

Question

Given an array of bytes representing text in some unknown encoding (usually UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, but not necessarily so), what is the best way to obtain a guess for the most

Answer 1

There is also Apache Tika - a content analysis toolkit. It can guess the mime type, and it can guess the encoding. Usually the guess is correct with a very high probability.