Get encoding of a file in Windows

Question

This isn\'t really a programming question, is there a command line or Windows tool (Windows 7) to get the current encoding of a text file? Sure I can write a little C# app b

Answer 1

If you have "git" or "Cygwin" on your Windows Machine, then go to the folder where your file is present and execute the command:

file *

This will give you the encoding details of all the files in that folder.