online tool to determine character encoding of a web page

I am having difficulty determining the “best guess” character encoding of a particular web page.

It would be handy if there was an online tool out there on the web that could act in the following way:

  1. Show form to allow user to submit the URL of the page that they want to analyse
  2. On submission - visit the URL and report back with the following information
    • Any character encodings that that are declared - e.g in the head tags, server response etc
    • List of possible character encodings in order of likeliness
    • Links to visual on-the-fly graphic representations of characters from the target URL (particularly any that are outside of the ASCI range) for each possible encodings

Not much to ask, is it. ;o)

Any out there?

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Useful resources

http://winvnkey.sourceforge.net/webhelp/convert_character_to_code.htm

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