18 The SYSTEM Package
detect-japanese-encoding-in-file
Function
- Summary
- Determines which type of Japanese encoding is used in a buffer.
- Package
system- Signature
detect-japanese-encoding-in-file pathname ef-spec buffer length => new-ef-spec- Arguments
-
- pathname
Pathname identifying location of buffer.
- ef-spec
An external format spec.
- buffer
A buffer whose contents are examined.
- length
Length (an integer) up to which buffer should be examined.
- Values
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- new-ef-spec
A new external format spec created by merging ef-spec with the Japanese encoding that was found.
- Description
- Assume the encoding is one of
:jis,:sjis,:euc,:unicodeand:ascii, and try to determine which of these it is, by looking for distinctive byte sequences in buffer up to length. If found, merge ef-spec with that encoding. - See also