chardetect1

Universal character encoding detector

Usage

chardet [file ...]

Overview

Report heuristically-detected character encoding for each file.

For every specified file (defaulting to stdin if no files are specified), reads and determines the character encoding of the file content. Reports the name and confidence level for each file's detected character encoding.

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

8–13