Command-line tool

enca

brew/enca

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Charset analyzer and converter

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install enca

Linux

brew install enca

Detect file(s) encoding according to the system's locale

enca path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Detect file(s) encoding specifying a language in the POSIX/C locale format (e.g. zh_CN, en_US)

enca -L language path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Convert file(s) to a specific encoding

enca -L language -x to_encoding path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

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