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🏷️ NAME

encguess - guess character encodings of files

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔍 Guess encoding of a file	encguess test.txt	Uses default suspect types (ascii, utf8, UTF-16/32 with BOM)
🎯 Guess with specific suspect types	encguess -s euc-jp,shiftjis,7bit-jis test.txt	Specify comma-separated encoding list
📋 List all acceptable encoding types	encguess -S	Outputs supported encoding names for -s
🤫 Suppress unidentified files	encguess -u -s euc-jp test.txt	Only show files where encoding was identified
📁 Multiple files	encguess -s shiftjis,utf8 *.txt	Process multiple files at once

🔢 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

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

  encguess test.txt

• 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

• 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.

🔗 SEE ALSO

Encode::Guess, Encode::Detect

📜 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015 Michael LaGrasta and Dan Kogai.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

<http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0>

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perl v5.34.0 - 2026-06-23 - ENCGUESS(1)

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