How does gedit detect the encoding of a text file?

Asked Sep 27 '14 at 18:59

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How does gedit detect the encoding of a text file when opening it?

I notice that gedit can always find the correct encoding when opening a text file of mine, while chardet can often fail to and emacs can sometimes fail too. Is it because I created the text files under gedit, and gedit might save some encoding information as metadata to the text files during their creation?
Can I run gedit in command line to detect encoding of a text file, just like chardet does? That will be convenient when I want to write shell commands for batch processing text files.

Thanks.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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asked Sep 27 '14 at 18:59

Tim

You will probably have better luck on the gedit mailing lists or IRC channel (see here). – fkraiem Sep 27 '14 at 19:47

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