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GroupDocs.Parser provides the functionality to detect the encoding of a plain text file. The following encodings are supported:

• UTF32 LE
• UTF32 BE
• UTF16 LE
• UTF16 BE
• UTF8
• UTF7
• ANSI

Encoding is detected by BOM or by the content of the file (if BOM isn’t present).

Here are the steps to detect the encoding of the document:

• Instantiate the LoadOptions object with the default ANSI encoding (a java.nio.charset.Charset object);
• Instantiate the Parser object for the initial document;
• Call the getDocumentInfo method and check that the result is a com.groupdocs.parser.options.TextDocumentInfo object (use java.instanceOf);
• Call the getCharset() method.

The following example shows how to detect the encoding of the document:

const java = require('java');
const groupdocs = require('@groupdocs/groupdocs.parser');
const Charset = java.import('java.nio.charset.Charset');

// Create an instance of LoadOptions class with the default ANSI encoding.
// This encoding is returned for ANSI text documents.
const loadOptions = new groupdocs.LoadOptions(groupdocs.FileFormat.WordProcessing, null, null, Charset.forName('US-ASCII'));
// Create an instance of Parser class
const parser = new groupdocs.Parser('utf8.txt', loadOptions);
try {
  // Get the document info
  const info = parser.getDocumentInfo();
  // Check if it's the document info of a plain text document
  if (!java.instanceOf(info, 'com.groupdocs.parser.options.TextDocumentInfo')) {
    console.log("Isn't a plain text document");
  } else {
    // Print the encoding
    console.log('Encoding: ' + info.getCharset().displayName());
  }
} finally {
  parser.close();
}
process.exit(0);

For the UTF-8 sample file the example prints Encoding: UTF-8.

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