Re: UTF-8 keyboard mode

[Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>]

Thomas Wolff wrote:

> Mined (my editor...) performs automatic detection of UTF-8 vs Latin-1. 
> It's quite easy.
> I derived the algorithm from a straightforward table of legal/illegal 
> byte sequence patterns.
> It doesn't convert, though, but rather handles the file in its original 
> format. Even mixed-encoding files can be edited.

How much of the file do you need to examine to detect the encoding?

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