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\name{stri_enc_detect2}
\alias{stri_enc_detect2}
\title{[DEPRECATED] Detect Locale-Sensitive Character Encoding}
\usage{
stri_enc_detect2(str, locale = NULL)
}
\arguments{
\item{str}{character vector, a raw vector, or
a list of \code{raw} vectors}

\item{locale}{\code{NULL} or \code{''}
for default locale,
\code{NA} for just checking the UTF-* family,
or a single string with locale identifier.}
}
\value{
Just like \code{\link{stri_enc_detect}},
this function returns a list of length equal to the length of \code{str}.
Each list element is a data frame with the following three named components:
\itemize{
   \item \code{Encoding} -- string; guessed encodings; \code{NA} on failure
   (iff \code{encodings} is empty),
   \item \code{Language} -- always \code{NA},
   \item \code{Confidence} -- numeric in [0,1]; the higher the value,
   the more confidence there is in the match; \code{NA} on failure.
}
The guesses are ordered by decreasing confidence.
}
\description{
This function tries to detect character encoding
in case the language of text is known.
}
\details{
Vectorized over \code{str}.

First, the text is checked whether it is valid
UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8
(as in \code{\link{stri_enc_detect}},
this is roughly inspired by \pkg{ICU}'s \code{i18n/csrucode.cpp}) or ASCII.


If \code{locale} is not \code{NA} and the above fails,
the text is checked for the number of occurrences
of language-specific code points (data provided by the \pkg{ICU} library)
converted to all possible 8-bit encodings
that fully cover the indicated language.
The encoding is selected based on the greatest number of total
byte hits.

The guess is of course imprecise,
as it is obtained using statistics and heuristics.
Because of this, detection works best if you supply at least a few hundred
bytes of character data that is in a single language.


If you have no initial guess on the language and encoding, try with
\code{\link{stri_enc_detect}} (uses \pkg{ICU} facilities).
}
\seealso{
Other locale_sensitive: 
\code{\link{\%s<\%}()},
\code{\link{about_locale}},
\code{\link{about_search_boundaries}},
\code{\link{about_search_coll}},
\code{\link{stri_compare}()},
\code{\link{stri_count_boundaries}()},
\code{\link{stri_duplicated}()},
\code{\link{stri_extract_all_boundaries}()},
\code{\link{stri_locate_all_boundaries}()},
\code{\link{stri_opts_collator}()},
\code{\link{stri_order}()},
\code{\link{stri_sort_key}()},
\code{\link{stri_sort}()},
\code{\link{stri_split_boundaries}()},
\code{\link{stri_trans_tolower}()},
\code{\link{stri_unique}()},
\code{\link{stri_wrap}()}

Other encoding_detection: 
\code{\link{about_encoding}},
\code{\link{stri_enc_detect}()},
\code{\link{stri_enc_isascii}()},
\code{\link{stri_enc_isutf16be}()},
\code{\link{stri_enc_isutf8}()}
}
\concept{encoding_detection}
\concept{locale_sensitive}
