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## skip Test::Tabs
use strict;
use IO::HTML ();
our $VERSION='0.992';
our $DEBUG;
# this really shouldn't work, but for some reason it does...
sub _detect {
return +{ encoding => 'UTF-8' } if !utf8::is_utf8($_[0]); # huh?
open my $fh, '<:raw', \$_[0];
my $e = IO::HTML::sniff_encoding($fh => 'string');
return +{ encoding => $e } if defined $e;
return +{};
}
sub detect_byte_string ($$) {
my $de;
eval {
$de = _detect $_[1];
1;
} or do {
warn $@ unless $DEBUG;
die $@ if $DEBUG;
};
if (defined $de and defined $de->{encoding}) {
return lc $de->{encoding};
} else {
return undef;
}
} # detect_byte_string
#Copyright 2007-2011 Wakaba <w@suika.fam.cx>
#Copyright 2009-2012 Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>
#
#This library is free software; you can redistribute it
#and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
1;