Hi all,
I want to check the encoding of a file, since i need to convert all my templates to utf8, but not the ones that are utf8, since they will be double encoded (using iconf)
However, after supersearching i came up with the following possible solution:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use File::BOM qw( :all );

open_bom(FH, "test.txt", 'bytes');

my $encoding = get_encoding_from_filehandle(FH);
print $encoding . "\n\n";

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This is not returning anything however.
for now, we started to use (opening each file and parsing it in the encoder): 
use Encode::Guess;
my $decoder = guess_encoding($arg->{String}, 'latin1');
if (ref($decoder)) {
    return 0;
} else {
    return 1;
}

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For the rest i did not find any other way of dertermining the encoding of a file, anyone knows what is wrong with File::BOM or does anyone have a better solution?
Thanks!
"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." - Larry Wall.

In reply to how to check the encoding of a file by jbrugger

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