http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2270421/2005-01-20T00:50:37-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2005-01-20T00:50:37-08:00Lars Tiedehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2270421/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/363841-detect-character-encoding-in-an-xml-file/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 363841 by <a href="/recipes/users/2270421/">Lars Tiede</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/xml/">xml</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A function analyzing an open xml file for its character encoding by - checking for a unicode BOM or (on failure) - searching the xml declaration at the beginning of the file for the "encoding" attribute</p>