CheckFileEncoding 1.0.1

check_your_encoding

A nuget for encoding detection of the 3 most common encodings with BOM.

• UTF-8
• UTF-16(BE)
• UTF-16(LE)

Getting Started

Installing

To install CheckFileEncoding, run the following command in Package Manager Console

Install-Package CheckFileEncoding 

To install CheckFileEncoding, open a command line, switch to the directory that contains you project file and run the command below

dotnet add package CheckFileEncoding 

Usage/Examples

using CheckFileEncoding

//you can use the premade chain to go through all the encoding checks
var chain = Factory.EncodingChain;

//Call ClientCodeMethod and add the chain and path to the file you want to check
Client.ClientCode(chain, @"c:\users\username\Desktop\file_name.txt");

//Or you can call the methods one at a time
var utf8 = new UTF8Handler();

//Add the path to the file you want to check
utf8.Handle(@"c:\users\username\desktop\file_name.txt");

//If the encoding is found. Response should be something like this: 
The document is encoded with UTF16(LE)/LittleEndian

//If not, it should be something like this: 
Document is not encoded with UTF16(LE)/LittleEndian.
Please try another.

Built With

• Refactoring Guru - The design pattern used

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

Authors

*ItsSteph

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

MIT

Acknowledgments

• Marcus Medina - Factory and Chain Of Responsibility structure
• 2Toad - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3825390/effective-way-to-find-any-files-encoding - Codeinspiration
• cheng-chen - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3404199/how-to-find-out-the-encoding-of-a-file-c-sharp