With reference to the following thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498636/java-app-unable-to-read-iso-8859-1-encoded-file-correctly
What is the best way to programatically determine the correct charset encoding of an inputstream/file ?
I have tried using the following:
File in = new File(args); InputStreamReader r = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(in)); System.out.println(r.getEncoding());
But on a file which I know to be encoded with ISO8859_1 the above code yields ASCII, which is not correct, and does not allow me to correctly render the content of the file back to the console.