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Do text files store their encoding method for later decoding?

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Mar 15, 20264334 views
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I was wondering if some text files store their encoding method along their text content for later decoding? Or is it the text viewer's job to guess the encoding method for a given text file, and the guessing may not always be correct? If yes, how does a text viewer guess that?

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I was wondering if some text files store their encoding method along their text content for later decoding? Mark Szymanski's answer is correct - there is no explicit encoding information in a plain text file - that's the definition of "plain text fi…

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