NAME

encguess - guess character encodings of files

VERSION

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

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