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I have a custom .sty-file in cp1251 encoding which is defines \RequirePackage[cp1251]{inputenc}. I use it for compile with pdflatex in the same encoding, But when I try to compile some file with other encoding, say utf8 I, of course, get an errors. How my package can automatically check the file encoding and hence redefine parameters of \RequirePackage[<current file encoding>]{inputenc}?

Briefly, I need something like

\if@CurrentFileEncoding=utf8
       \RequirePackage[utf8]{inputenc}
       \RequirePackage{literat}
\else
       \RequirePackage[cp1251]{inputenc}
       \RequirePackage{<someotherpackage>}
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    Have a look at selinput – egreg Jan 03 '15 at 13:34
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    Unless it is a private package loading inputenc should be left to the user IMHO. Personally I wouldn't bother and would just leave it... – cgnieder Jan 03 '15 at 14:28
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    It is almost always better not to force the document encoding. The package can be written to just use classic ascii input with no input encoding dependencies. – David Carlisle Jan 03 '15 at 16:05

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You can use selinput; for this particular case, a cyrillic letter can be used, together with a restricted set of encodings to look for.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{selinput}
\SelectInputEncodingList{utf8,cp1251}
\SelectInputMappings{
  cyrd={д},
}

\begin{document}
\inputencodingname
\end{document}

If the file is encoded in UTF-8, compiling it will produce

utf8

If it's encoded in CP1251,

cp1251

will be produced.

However, your problem is different and not really solvable.

If your package has, say

\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Глава}

and is encoded in CP1251, there will be no way to use this in a UTF-8 encoded document, because TeX uses the input encoding only when expanding macros. It is completely irrelevant when TeX stores a definition.

In this case, \chaptername will expand to the sequence of characters

<C3><EB><E0><E2><E0>

(each <..> denotes a character code) with category code 13, that will be invalid in a UTF-8 encoded document.

You could use

\RequirePackage[utf8,cp1251]{inputenc}
\inputencoding{cp1251}

in the sergiokapone.sty file and

\protected@edef\chaptername{Глава}

in the code, that would make LaTeX expand \chaptername to

\IeC{\CYRG}\IeC{\cyrl}\IeC{\cyra}\IeC{\cyrv}\IeC{\cyra}

which is independent of the encoding, and the main document would use

\usepackage{sergiokapone}
\inputencoding{utf8} % or cp1251

or, possibly, selinput as shown before.

This is however not what I'd recommend. The best way to proceed is to make .sty files encoding independent; the above \renewcommand should be

\renewcommand{\chaptername}{\CYRG\cyrl\cyra\cyrv\cyra}
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