EncodingDetector (jEdit API Documentation)

All Known Implementing Classes:

EncodingWithBOM.Detector, RegexEncodingDetector, XMLEncodingDetector
```
public interface EncodingDetector
```
An interface to detect a reasonable encoding from some bytes at the beginning of a file. To offer your own EncodingDetector, implement this interface and define a service in your services.xml file. For example:
```
<SERVICE CLASS="org.gjt.sp.jedit.io.EncodingDetector" NAME="XML-PI">
        new XMLEncodingDetector();
</SERVICE> 
```
Since:

4.3pre10

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`detectEncoding(java.io.InputStream sample)`	Returns the name of a detected encoding for the bytes in sample.

- Method Detail
  - detectEncoding
```
java.lang.String detectEncoding(java.io.InputStream sample)
                         throws java.io.IOException
```
    Returns the name of a detected encoding for the bytes in sample. Returns null if this instance could not detect reasonable one.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException