[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-1406) Problems in TXT encoding detection

["Tyler Palsulich (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tyler Palsulich commented on TIKA-1406:
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Can someone familiar with the UniversalEncodingDetector take a look at this patch? Sorry no one ever got back, [~almson]! Do you have a couple test files which demonstrate these issues?

> Problems in TXT encoding detection
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-1406
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1406
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: parser
>    Affects Versions: 1.6, 1.7
>            Reporter: Aleksandr Dubinsky
>         Attachments: 0001-fix-TXT-encoding-detection.patch
>
>   Original Estimate: 0h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The detection of TXT file encoding often makes mistakes. Two things can improve the detection in many cases:
> - Increase the lookahead from 16k bytes to a larger number, such as 128k or larger.
> - Improve on the brain-dead heuristic that if a file doesn't have a \r then it must be ISO 8859-1(5) instead of Windows-1252. (For one, it mis-detects files that don't have any newlines.)
> A remaining problem that doesn't have an immediate solution, is the frequent mis-detection of Windows-1252 as Shift-JIS. A flag to forbit Shift-JIS is desirable.



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