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Old 01-13-2018
Lightbulb View file encoding then change encoding.

Hi all!!

I´m using command
Code:
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!
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Old 01-13-2018
Most certainly because of the -i argument...
But to give you a better answer we need to know the OS and version you are using...
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Old 01-13-2018
uname -a

SunOS serv364 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc sun4v
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