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

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, :unicode and :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

*file-encoding-detection-algorithm*