enca

Detect and convert the encoding of text files.

• Detect file(s) encoding according to the system's locale:

enca {file1 file2 ...}

• Detect file(s) encoding specifying a language in the POSIX/C locale format (e.g. zh_CN, en_US):

enca -L {language} {file1 file2 ...}

• Convert file(s) to a specific encoding:

enca -L {language} -x {to_encoding} {file1 file2 ...}

• Create a copy of an existing file using a different encoding:

enca -L {language} -x {to_encoding} < {original_file} > {new_file}

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