How to auto detect text file encoding?

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00:57 Accepted answer (Score 78)
01:42 Answer 2 (Score 41)
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/301552/h...

Accepted answer links:
[chardet]: https://github.com/chardet/chardet
[detection code]: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects...
[project documentation]: http://chardet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://superuser.com/a/609056

Answer 3 links:
[uchardet]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/uchardet/...
[Debian]: https://packages.qa.debian.org/u/ucharde...
[Ubuntu]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/uch...

Answer 4 links:
[enca]: https://github.com/nijel/enca
[auto_ef]: http://developers.sun.com/global/technol...

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#linux #batch #encoding

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