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

If you don't know beforehand the character encoding and this is different among various platforms, then you need to somehow analyze the byte array to try to guess it. There are some detecting algorithms available, but it may be an overkill for your application.

Can you tweak your application to produce a known output? No need to be a full line, only the first characters will do. If yes, then you could compare the produced byte array with the expected in various encodings and do the detecting. The byte arrays of UTF8, UTF-16 big and little endian will be different event for simple strings.