enca — Detect and convert the encoding of text files. More information: <https://manned.org/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]}} {{language}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Convert file(s) to a specific encoding

enca {{[-L|--language]}} {{language}} {{[-x|--convert-to]}} {{to_encoding}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Create a copy of an existing file using a different encoding

enca < {{original_file}} {{[-L|--language]}} {{language}} {{[-x|--convert-to]}} {{to_encoding}} > {{new_file}}