detect encoding

package.json

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     "http-proxy-agent": "0.2.7",
     "https-proxy-agent": "0.3.6",
     "iconv-lite": "0.4.15",
+    "jschardet": "^1.4.1",
     "minimist": "1.2.0",
     "native-keymap": "0.4.0",
     "node-pty": "0.6.2",

src/typings/jschardet.d.ts

+declare module 'jschardet' {
+	export interface IDetectedMap {
+		encoding: string,
+		confidence: number
+	}
+	export function detect(buffer: NodeBuffer): IDetectedMap;
+}
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src/vs/base/node/encoding.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import stream = require('vs/base/node/stream');
 import iconv = require('iconv-lite');
 import { TPromise } from 'vs/base/common/winjs.base';
+import jschardet = require('jschardet');
 
 export const UTF8 = 'utf8';
 export const UTF8_with_bom = 'utf8bom';
@@ -94,6 +95,25 @@ export function detectEncodingByBOM(file: string): TPromise<string> {
 	return stream.readExactlyByFile(file, 3).then(({buffer, bytesRead}) => detectEncodingByBOMFromBuffer(buffer, bytesRead));
 }
 
+const IGNORE_ENCODINGS = ['ascii', 'utf-8', 'utf-16', 'urf-32'];
+/**
+ * Detects the encoding from buffer.
+ */
+export function detectEncodingByBuffer(buffer: NodeBuffer): string {
+	let detected = jschardet.detect(buffer);
+	if (!detected || !detected.encoding) {
+		return null;
+	}
+	let enc = detected.encoding.toLowerCase();
+
+	// Ignore encodings that cannot detect correctly
+	// (http://chardet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/supported-encodings.html)
+	if (0 <= IGNORE_ENCODINGS.indexOf(enc)) {
+		return null;
+	}
+
+	return detected.encoding;
+}
 /**
  * The encodings that are allowed in a settings file don't match the canonical encoding labels specified by WHATWG.
  * See https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#names-and-labels

src/vs/base/node/mime.ts

@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ export function detectMimeAndEncodingFromBuffer({buffer, bytesRead}: stream.Read
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	if (isText && !enc) {
+		enc = encoding.detectEncodingByBuffer(buffer);
+	}
 
 	return {
 		mimes: isText ? [mime.MIME_TEXT] : [mime.MIME_BINARY],