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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Convert files to UTF-8 on AIX 7.1 Post 303013740 by cero on Tuesday 27th of February 2018 04:55:32 AM
Old 02-27-2018
Hi,

the file command uses a file called magic to identify the file type. According to the POSIX man page the -m flag can be used to specify an own magic file and I think the AIX file command supports this flag too.
Maybe you can obtain or create a magic file that fits your needs.
 

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CHANGE-PO-CHARSET(1)					      General Commands Manual					      CHANGE-PO-CHARSET(1)

NAME
change-po-charset - change the charset value in content-type header of a gettext po file SYNOPSIS
change-po-charset <charset> FILENAME1 [ FILENAME2 ...] DESCRIPTION
change-po-charset is a simple Perl script, which reads the specified file names, and prints them on standard output, making only the fol- lowing modification. In the first msgstr string sequence it encounters, it changes the "charset" attribute of the Content-Type header to the charset specified as the first parameter. Please note that it does not actually change any character encoding of the contents of the data. It is used by potooledit(1) to fix the content-type header after it recodes the file with iconv(1). SEE ALSO
potooledit(1), iconv(1), msgmerge(1), msgfmt(1). AUTHOR
change-po-charset was written by Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>. September 21, 2007 CHANGE-PO-CHARSET(1)
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