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ENCGUESS(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide ENCGUESS(1)

NAME
encguess - guess character encodings of files

VERSION
$Id: encguess,v 0.3 2020/12/02 01:28:17 dankogai Exp dankogai $

SYNOPSIS
encguess [switches] filename...

SWITCHES
-h
show this message and exit.

-s
specify a list of "suspect encoding types" to test, separated by either ":" or ","

-S
output a list of all acceptable encoding types that can be used with the -s param

-u
suppress display of unidentified types

EXAMPLES:
o Guess encoding of a file named "test.txt", using only the default suspect types.

encguess test.txt

o Guess the encoding type of a file named "test.txt", using the suspect types
"euc-jp,shiftjis,7bit-jis".

encguess -s euc-jp,shiftjis,7bit-jis test.txt
encguess -s euc-jp:shiftjis:7bit-jis test.txt

o Guess the encoding type of several files, do not display results for unidentified files.

encguess -us euc-jp,shiftjis,7bit-jis test*.txt

DESCRIPTION
The encoding identification is done by checking one encoding type at a time until all but
the right type are eliminated. The set of encoding types to try is defined by the -s
parameter and defaults to ascii, utf8 and UTF-16/32 with BOM. This can be overridden by
passing one or more encoding types via the -s parameter. If you need to pass in multiple
suspect encoding types, use a quoted string with the a space separating each value.