How to guess the encoding of a file with no BOM in .NET?

Question

I\'m using the StreamReader class in .NET like this:

using( StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( \"c:\\somefile.html\", true ) {
    string filetext = rea         


        

Answer 1

Libary http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/DetectEncoding.aspx

And perhaps a useful thread on stackoverflow

Answer 2

Use Win32's IsTextUnicode.

In the general sense, it is a difficult promlem. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/04/17/2158334.aspx.