sys uchardet

vb sys uchardet [-n BYTES] FILE...

Description

Guess the character encoding of each FILE using uchardet.

Options

-n BYTES

Read at most BYTES bytes from each FILE for detection (default 4096)

Examples

• Detect encoding of a text file

$ vb sys uchardet sample.txt
ASCII

• Limit the number of bytes read during detection

$ vb sys uchardet -n 16 short.txt
ASCII