UCHARDET(1)

✨ NAME ✨

uchardet — the Universal Charset Detector, bestie edition 💖

🔍 DESCRIPTION 🔍

okay so picture this: you have a file, right? and you have zero idea what encoding it's in. no BOM, no clues, no nothing. that's literally the exact situation the uchardet CLI was born for 🫶

it's an encoding detector utility. you hand it one or several files in an unknown character encoding — and it takes no additional information from you, it just looks at the text and attempts to determine what the encoding is. main character energy, honestly 👑

and the best part? the encoding names it hands back are iconv-compatible ✨ so you can take that answer and immediately feed it into iconv without any awkward middle step. it just works. slay.

🌸 Usage 🌸

uchardet [Options] [File]...

• -v — print the version and build information. it's giving receipts 📋
• -h — print the help text. your lil map of the whole thing 🗺️

ngl the usage is genuinely this simple. options, then your files, done. no cap. 💅

uchardet Command Line Interface — that's the whole vibe, that's the whole program 🦋

uchardet · July 2011 — yeah she's been iconic since 2011 and she's still out here detecting charsets for you 💜 thank you for coming to my ted talk, mwah 🎀