Hi,

I have lots of text files and am inserting them into a database. The textfiles' encoding is different from each other. Some of them are UTF8, some iso-8859-9 and others cp1254. I am loading text file into a variable (this is the only way currently), and updating a row in the database. If it is UTF8, it should be inserted without changing the encoding. If it is cp1254 or iso-8859-9 , then I need to decode the data first. However, I have no idea what the encoding is. Is there any way to determine the encoding? I will update 150.000 rows, so I would like to reduce the potential errors as much as I can.

I tried Encode::Guess,

my $decoder = guess_encoding($data, qw/iso-8859-9 cp1254/);

It says: "iso-8859-9 or cp1254", but the correct encoding is cp1254. So, it is also not useful.

What do you suggest? Are there any workarounds or solution for this?

Thanks in advance,

In reply to Encoding Problem by anlamarama

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