π Input Text or Upload File
π Click to select file or drag & drop here
Supports .txt .html .xml .csv .json .js .css .md and more
π How to Use
β¦ Quick Start
- Upload a file or paste text content directly.
- Click "Detect Encoding" to analyze character encoding automatically.
- View detected encoding formats with confidence scores. Multiple encodings are compared.
β¦ Why Encoding Detection Matters
In web development, data processing, and cross-platform collaboration, encoding mismatch is the most common cause of garbled text. Correctly identifying file encoding prevents data loss and mojibake. Especially when handling files from different regions or systems, encoding detection is the essential first step.
β¦ Common Encoding Overview
UTF-8: The most universal encoding on the internet, ASCII-compatible, supports all Unicode characters. ISO-8859-1: Western European encoding (Latin-1). Shift-JIS: Japanese encoding. GBK/GB2312: Simplified Chinese encodings. Big5: Traditional Chinese encoding. EUC-KR: Korean encoding. UTF-8 is recommended for multilingual support.
β¦ What is BOM?
BOM (Byte Order Mark) is a special byte sequence at the start of a file that identifies encoding and byte order. UTF-16 and UTF-32 typically include BOM. UTF-8 BOM (EF BB BF) is optional. This tool automatically detects BOM headers.