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Originally Posted by cybmole

is there a logical approach ?

1. Try to let TXT input try to auto detect.
2. Try cp1252.
3. Try utf-8.
4. Open it in a text editor and save as utf-8. Sometimes you will need to copy and paste into a new document and then save.
5. Try opening it in Firefox and see if it can auto detect.
6. Open it in Firefox and keep changing the encoding (it's a setting under view) until it looks right.
7. Try using the asciiize option to transform “ to ".
8. Give up.

Almost all encodings for TXT files do not have any marking as to what they are. Figuring it out of often a guess.