GuessJapaneseEncoding Function

Guesses the text encoding used for a sample of Japanese text (2022_JP, EUC, S-JIS, or plain US_ASCII). If it is given a string whose encoding is already known to REALbasic, it returns that encoding.

Syntax

result = GuessJapaneseEncoding( text )


Parameters

text

String

The text whose text encoding will be guessed.


If the encoding is unknown, it assumes the encoding is some Japanese script, and attempts to guess which one.


See Also

ConvertEncoding, DefineEncoding, Encoding functions; TextEncoding class, Encodings object.