Using BOM to auto-detect file encoding

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-04-09 18:25, Kai Meyer wrote:
> I would like to know if there exists a 'stream' or 'file' class that is
> able to take a text file with a correct BOM, and an 'ouput' utf
> encoding. It want it to be capable of detecting the 'input' stream utf
> encoding by using the BOM, and do the encoding for me on the way out in
> the specified 'output' utf encoding.
>
> Right now I am using std.stream.File (which I know is going the way of
> all the earth soon) and manually parsing the BOM myself to then choose
> whether I call 'readLine' or 'readLineW', and then subsequently calling
> 'toUTF8' after that.
>
> It just seems like something like this would be nice to have in phobos
> if it's not already there.

There is a module in Tango for this, tango.io.UnicodeFile

http://dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/current/
https://github.com/SiegeLord/Tango-D2

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg