I doubt you can automate the detection of the encoding used on files it it's not specified somehow in the files themselves. Try playing around with AIX file -i and see what it thinks of your input files.
Last edited by Chubler_XL; 05-25-2011 at 11:02 PM..
Reason: Fixed typo in code (iconv not iconf)
1. I have a shell script which creates a file using cat command. How can i find what encoding the file follows (e.g. UTF8, ANSI)?
2. I want to convert that file to PC-ANSI format. How can i achieve that?
I am using HP-Unix. (6 Replies)
In a bash script:
src=”cooltrack.wav”
dst=”cooltrack.mp3”
lame $src $dst
I would like to add some line that would delete the source wav file like:
rm $src
but I would like this only if the encoding was successful.
What should I include before deleting the original to check that the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have got a zip (binary) file transferred from MacOS (thus it has additional __MACOSX directory packed inside). On extracting this zip, there are few *.xml files available. When I opened this *.xml file in vim editor using Cygwin (on windows) the editor displayed in the bottom. I tried... (4 Replies)
Hi, I am trying to determine the encoding for the file, because to convert to UTF-8, it seems as though I have to know the encoding of the source.
Tried this
file <filename>
give me this:
<filename>:data or International Language text
Tried to see the locale and this is the output:... (6 Replies)
Hello Experts, please help to provide any insight as I am facing issue migrating java application from hpux to redhat. The java program is using InputStreamReader to read a file without specifying any charset parameter.
However, in new Linux Redhat 5.6 environent, when reading a file that... (1 Reply)
Hi all!!
I´m using command file -i myfile.xml to validate XML file encoding, but it is just saying regular file . I´m expecting / looking an output as UTF8 or ANSI / ASCII
Is there command to display the files encoding?
Thank you! (2 Replies)
how can i know what format a file is
* example:
UTF-8
ANSI
UCS2
i am in a... (8 Replies)
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mb_convert_encoding
MB_CONVERT_ENCODING(3) 1 MB_CONVERT_ENCODING(3)mb_convert_encoding - Convert character encodingSYNOPSIS
string mb_convert_encoding (string $str, string $to_encoding, [mixed $from_encoding = mb_internal_encoding()])
DESCRIPTION
Converts the character encoding of string$str to $to_encoding from optionally $from_encoding.
PARAMETERS
o $str
- The string being encoded.
o $to_encoding
- The type of encoding that $str is being converted to.
o $from_encoding
- Is specified by character code names before conversion. It is either an array, or a comma separated enumerated list. If
$from_encoding is not specified, the internal encoding will be used. See supported encodings.
RETURN VALUES
The encoded string.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
mb_convert_encoding(3) example
<?php
/* Convert internal character encoding to SJIS */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "SJIS");
/* Convert EUC-JP to UTF-7 */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "UTF-7", "EUC-JP");
/* Auto detect encoding from JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win, then convert str to UCS-2LE */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "UCS-2LE", "JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win");
/* "auto" is expanded to "ASCII,JIS,UTF-8,EUC-JP,SJIS" */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "EUC-JP", "auto");
?>
SEE ALSO mb_detect_order(3).
PHP Documentation Group MB_CONVERT_ENCODING(3)