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How can I detect the encoding/codepage of a text file?

September 29, 2022 by Tarik

You can’t detect the codepage, you need to be told it. You can analyse the bytes and guess it, but that can give some bizarre (sometimes amusing) results. I can’t find it now, but I’m sure Notepad can be tricked into displaying English text in Chinese. Anyway, this is what you need to read: The … Read more

What is the difference between CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture properties of CultureInfo in .NET?

September 23, 2022 by Tarik

CurrentCulture is the .NET representation of the default user locale of the system. This controls default number and date formatting and the like. CurrentUICulture refers to the default user interface language, a setting introduced in Windows 2000. This is primarily regarding the UI localization/translation part of your app. Whatever regional options the system is configured … Read more