Encoding Detection

When you drag and drop text files on to the Diff window, DiffFork attempts to determine the encoding of the files, so they can be read and displayed correctly.

The following table shows all the encodings that can be detected.

UTF-8  
UTF-16BE  
UTF-16LE  
UTF-32BE  
UTF-32LE  
Shift_JIS Japanese
ISO-2022-JP Japanese
ISO-2022-CN Simplified Chinese
ISO-2022-KR Korean
GB18030  
Big5 Traditional Chinese
EUC-JP Japanese
EUC-KR Korean
ISO-8859-1 Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
ISO-8859-2 Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian
ISO-8859-5 Russian
ISO-8859-6 Arabic
ISO-8859-7 Greek
ISO-8859-8 Hebrew
windows-1251 Russian
windows-1256 Arabic
KOI8-R Russian
ISO-8859-9 Turkish