enca Command Examples

Detect and convert the encoding of text files. More information: https://github.com/nijel/enca.

• 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 {{[-L|--language]}} {{language}} {{[-x|--convert-to]}} {{to_encoding}} < {{original_file}} > {{new_file}}