How to check encoding of a CSV file

Question

I have a CSV file and I wish to understand its encoding. Is there a menu option in Microsoft Excel that can help me detect it

OR do I need to make use of programming

Answer 1

You can also use python chardet library

# install the chardet library
!pip install chardet

# import the chardet library
import chardet 

# use the detect method to find the encoding
# 'rb' means read in the file as binary
with open("test.csv", 'rb') as file:
    print(chardet.detect(file.read()))