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How can determine the character encoding of plain text files (such as html) on Mac OS X?

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There is a similar thread on Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/539294/… – ayaz Jun 13 '10 at 8:07
possible duplicate of Converting the encoding of a text file (Mac OS X) – Sathya♦ Jun 13 '10 at 9:19
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file -I {filename} worked from the link Ayaz provided. Apparently though, there is no definite way to determine the encoding.

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