Kamaraju S Kusumanchi:
> 
> Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how
> do I determine their current encoding?
Just a thought:
$ touch äöüß.éèâ
$ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ
-rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ
$ ls -1 > filelist
$ file filelist
filelist: UTF-8 Unicode text, with escape sequences
So saving a directory listing into a file and running the 'file' utility
might help.
J.
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