Automatically Detecting Text Encodings in C++

Consider the lowly text file. This text file can take on a surprising number of different formats. The text could be encoded as ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (little or big-endian), Windows-1252, Shift JIS, or any of dozens of other encodings. The file may or may not begin with a byte order mark (BOM). Lines of text could be terminated with a linefeed character \n (typical on UNIX), a CRLF sequence \r\n (typical on Windows) or, if the file was created on an older system, some other character sequence. S...

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