# File encoding detection library

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**Category:** Questions\
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**Created:** [October 16, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/file-encoding-detection-library/34972 "2020-10-16T07:53:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/file-encoding-detection-library/34972/9 "2020-10-17T16:25:26Z")

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Nice!  
Not sure if the ExMagic package is running the code with the equivalent option to `-i` to actually get back the encoding - think it just returns the mime… might be an easy tweak though.

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