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)
Discussion started by: tricampeon81
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mb_encoding_aliases
MB_ENCODING_ALIASES(3) 1 MB_ENCODING_ALIASES(3)mb_encoding_aliases - Get aliases of a known encoding typeSYNOPSIS
array mb_encoding_aliases (string $encoding)
DESCRIPTION
Returns an array of aliases for a known $encoding type.
PARAMETERS
o $encoding
- The encoding type being checked, for aliases.
RETURN VALUES
Returns a numerically indexed array of encoding aliases on success, or FALSE on failure
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
Emits an E_WARNING level error if $encoding is unknown.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
mb_encoding_aliases(3) example
<?php
$encoding = 'ASCII';
$known_encodings = mb_list_encodings();
if (in_array($encoding, $known_encodings)) {
$aliases = mb_encoding_aliases($encoding);
print_r($aliases);
} else {
echo "Unknown ($encoding) encoding.
";
}
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Array
(
[0] => ANSI_X3.4-1968
[1] => iso-ir-6
[2] => ANSI_X3.4-1986
[3] => ISO_646.irv:1991
[4] => US-ASCII
[5] => ISO646-US
[6] => us
[7] => IBM367
[8] => cp367
[9] => csASCII
)
SEE ALSO mb_list_encodings(3).
PHP Documentation Group MB_ENCODING_ALIASES(3)