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# enca
> Detect and convert encoding of text files
- detect file(s) encoding according to your system's locale
`enca {{file(s)}}`
- detect file(s) encoding; -L option tells enca the current language; language is in the POSIX/C locale format, e.g. zh_CN, en_US etc.
`enca -L {{language}} {{file(s)}}`
- convert file(s) to specified encoding
`enca -L {{language}} -x {{to_encoding}} {{file(s)}}`
- save original_file as new_file and convert new_file to specified encoding
`enca -L {{language}} -x {{to_encoding}} < {{original_file}} > {{new_file}}`