Dear sir! How can i judge a string's encoding?

Dear sir! How can i judge a string's encoding?Now i receive a string !but i do not known what encoding this string is? I want a method to judge the encoding.Thank you!
[196 byte] By [lee_jin] at [2007-9-26 7:09:36]
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If you have a String, it's already decoded. Probably using the default decoder, or the one specified in your Reader. I don't think there are any way to detect encodings accurately from just an array of bytes.

In JDK 1.4 there is a detectedCharset() method in java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder, if/how that work I don't understand.

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