enca

all

Detect and convert the encoding of text files.

Options (2)

-L, --languageboolean

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

Example: enca {{[-L|--language]}} {{language}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

-x, --convert-toboolean

Convert file(s) to a specific encoding

Example: enca {{[-L|--language]}} {{language}} {{[-x|--convert-to]}} {{to_encoding}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

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

enca path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

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

enca [-L|--language] language path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Convert file(s) to a specific encoding

enca [-L|--language] language [-x|--convert-to] to_encoding path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Create a copy of an existing file using a different encoding

enca < original_file [-L|--language] language [-x|--convert-to] to_encoding > new_file