Charguess is for use when a sentence/text from an unknown source or/and with a unknown/missing encoding, is received.

In future revision, Charguess will be able to verify a claimed encoding also and limit the reply to one language or group of languages.
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Typical applications are :
Word processing and others office-wares
Web browser (often the encoding field is missing)
File sharing programs

Charguess supports encoding/charsets of
BIG5 - HZ - JIS - SJIS - EUC-JP - EUC-KR - EUC-TW -
GB2312 - Bulgarian - Cyrillic - Greek - Hungarian - Thai -
Latin1 - UTF8


How does it work?

1) The different encondings are tested

2) If a encoding is possible then the diffents charset are tested

3) If several couples encoding/charset are still possible, then compute frequencies of the characters and compare them to the statistics

Is the reply warranty ?
No. Because often the replies are based on statistics, but the more than 95% of the answers are good.