Re: Determining character encoding for a given file

[Kim Christensen <kim-lists@01.se>]

* Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [2007-01-31 06:58:16 -0600]:

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> On 01/31/07 02:33, Kim Christensen wrote:
> > * Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> [2007-01-30 12:49:00 +0100]:
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> >> On 2007-01-30 06:40:52 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Kim Christensen wrote:
> >>>> This might not be debian specific, but does anyone know of a quick way
> >>>> (hack/tool) to determine the encoding used for a given file?
> >>> apt-cache show recode
> >> How can you do that with recode?
> >>
> >>> apt-cache show enca
> >> enca is very limited. Alternatively, you have the command "file".
> > 
> > Thanks, this does exactly what I'm after!
> 
> Which one?  enca or file?

"file", sorry for that :-)

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Kim Christensen
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