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Determine input encoding by examining the input bytes

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How do I know the encoding of a text file?

Open the file with Notepad++ and will see on the right down corner the encoding table name. And in the menu encoding you can change the encoding table and save the file.

How do I identify a UTF-8 file?

Open the file in Notepad. Click 'Save As...'. In the 'Encoding:' combo box you will see the current file format. Yes, I opened the file in notepad and selected the UTF-8 format and saved it.


I'm getting console input from the user and want to encode it to UTF-8. My understanding is C++ does not have a standard encoding for input streams, and that it instead depends on the compiler, the runtime environment, localization, and what not.

How can I determine the input encoding by examining the bytes of the input?