Is there a simple way I can check the header (i.e "type") of a file?
There isn't in general any such thing. All there is in a text file is what you see; that's what makes it text. UTF-x files can (and sometimes must) have a BOM, but ISO-8859's won't.
Your text editor either has to be told (by you, by default config, etc) what encoding to use, or it can try (and occasionally even succeed) to guess by the patterns of bytes in it. But it has no way to be know unless you tell it. That's why text encoding is such a mess...
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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