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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem identifying charset of a file Post 302295766 by Yogesh Sawant on Monday 9th of March 2009 01:53:18 PM
Old 03-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by sridhar_423
Hi all,

My objective is to find out the charset using which a file is encoded. (The OS is SunOs)
try:
Code:
$ file filename.txt

for example:
Code:
yogeshs@yogesh-laptop:~/temp$ 
yogeshs@yogesh-laptop:~/temp$ cat chars.txt 
لرياض
yogeshs@yogesh-laptop:~/temp$ file chars.txt 
chars.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text
yogeshs@yogesh-laptop:~/temp$

 

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