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detect file encoding using the first 4 bytes of the file
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| def detect_encoding(file_path): | |
| with open(file_path, 'rb') as f: | |
| b = f.read(4) | |
| if (b[0:3] == b'\xef\xbb\xbf'): | |
| return 'utf-8' | |
| if ((b[0:2] == b'\xfe\xff') or (b[0:2] == b'\xff\xfe')): | |
| return 'utf-16' | |
| if ((b[0:5] == b'\xfe\xff\x00\x00') or (b[0:5] == b'\x00\x00\xff\xfe')): | |
| return 'utf-32' | |
| return 'euc-kr' # default value |
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