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 {{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}}