Java charset and Windows

Question

I have a Java program that runs msinfo32.exe (system information)in an external process and then reads the file content produced by msinfo32.exe. When the Java program loads

Answer 1

You can’t really know what character encoding has been used (unless you created the tool that created the output you’re processing). You can try to detect a list of pre-defined encodings and choose the one that does not result in any decoding errors but depending on the input that might match a lot of different encodings.