chardetect - Man Page

chardetect – takes one or more file paths and reports their detected encodings

Synopsis

chardetect [-h] [--version] [input ...]

Options

Positional Arguments

input

File whose encoding we would like to determine. (default: stdin)

Optional Arguments

-h,  --help

show a help message and exit

--minimal

Print only the encoding to standard output

-l,  --legacy

Rename legacy encodings to more modern ones.

--version

show program’s version number and exit

Info

June 2022