uchardet(1)

uchardet1

Universal charset detector

Overview

uchardet CLI is an encoding detector utility, which takes one or several files in unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the texts. Returned encoding names are iconv-compatible.

Usage:

uchardet [Options] [File]...

-v Print version and build information.

-h Print help text.

uchardet Command Line Interface

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7–9
  2. 10
  3. 11–Arch

From uchardet 0.0.8-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.