How to determine is string is UTF-8 encoded

[MrSwiss]

If doing things in German, please use OFFICIAL translation:

SetGlobals v2$="Das Leben ist schön" ; ö is Ascii 246
SetGlobals v2n$="Das Leben ist schon" ; no Umlaut

correct is:

"Das Leben ist schoen" -- the word gets otherwise, a different meaning!

That's the way its done in Travel-Documents, like Passports!

• ä = ae
  ö = oe
  ü = ue

[jj2007]

Danke vielmals, Herr Oberlehrer, dass Sie mir die deutsche Sprache erklären wollen! Aus dem Kontext hätte sich allerdings, mit etwas gutem Willen, durchaus ableiten lassen, dass das Beispiel nicht gedacht war, Schweizer Sprachstandards zu respektieren: Es ging um Utf8, nicht um korrekte Orthographie.

[MrSwiss]

You are simply incapable, of taking any sort of critique, constructive or otherwise.
Anyway, its always a pleasure to help, Mr. omniscient.

[jj2007]

You shouldn't put a comma between "incapable" and "of taking", Mr Oberlehrer.

[Pierre Bellisle]

jj2007 >> Good idea but Paul had it a bit earlier
Yep, I missed it, maybe my subconscious did not? Useless redundancy. No copyright for me.

marcov>> it is only certain if there is a BOM
Even there I woudn't say "certain". I'd say mostly certain.
It's easy to imagine a text search engine that read some binary file that start with "" 0xEF,0xBB,0xB.
Of course, extention filename give no waranty.