enca

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

• Convert file(s) to a specific encoding:

enca -L language -x to_encoding path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

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

enca -L language -x to_encoding < original_file > new_file