Re: find encoding of filenames

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Jochen Schulz wrote:

> 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
> 

For me the output of file is different and does not include the encoding
information.

$tree /backup_halo_system_files_20070216 > filelist

$file filelist
filelist: ASCII text

ls -al, ls -1 etc., also give the same result.


raju
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