Re: Command to tell what character encoding a file has

[jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)]

>> A while back I used a command which would tell me the character encoding
>> of a file, ie in shift_jis or euc.  Now I cant remember the name of the
>> command.  Can someone please enlighten me on this commands name and also
>> where I can find c source for it.

I have always used Ken Lunde's "jconv" for both checking & converting.
The source is on ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html
It does useful things like converting hanakaku kana to zenkaku.

Of course it fails on files with utf8 in them - most simple
code-detectors think utf8 is Shit-JIS. I have a better one somewhere
around which tells them apart.

Jim
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