- NAME
- VERSION
- SYNOPSIS
  - SWITCHES
  - EXAMPLES:
- DESCRIPTION
- SEE ALSO
- LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

# NAME

encguess - guess character encodings of files

# VERSION

$Id: encguess,v 0.1 2015/02/05 10:34:19 dankogai Exp $

# SYNOPSIS

      encguess [switches] filename...

## SWITCHES

-h

  show this message and exit.

-s

  specify a list of "suspect encoding types" to test, seperated by either `:` or `,`

-S

  output a list of all acceptable encoding types that can be used with the -s param

-u

  suppress display of unidentified types

## EXAMPLES:

- Guess encoding of a file named `test.txt`, using only the default suspect types.

         encguess test.txt

- Guess the encoding type of a file named `test.txt`, using the suspect types `euc-jp,shiftjis,7bit-jis`.

         encguess -s euc-jp,shiftjis,7bit-jis test.txt
         encguess -s euc-jp:shiftjis:7bit-jis test.txt

- Guess the encoding type of several files, do not display results for unidentified files.

         encguess -us euc-jp,shiftjis,7bit-jis test*.txt

# DESCRIPTION

The encoding identification is done by checking one encoding type at a time until all but the right type are eliminated. The set of encoding types to try is defined by the -s parameter and defaults to ascii, utf8 and UTF-16/32 with BOM. This can be overridden by passing one or more encoding types via the -s parameter. If you need to pass in multiple suspect encoding types, use a quoted string with the a space separating each value.

# SEE ALSO

Encode::Guess, Encode::Detect

# LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015 Michael LaGrasta and Dan Kogai.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0