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enca - Detects and converts character set of text files

'Enca' (Extremely Naive Charset Analyser) detects the encoding of text files, based on knowledge of their language. It can also convert them to other encodings, letting you to recode files without knowing their current encoding. It supports most of Central and East European languages, and a few Unicode variants, independently of language.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/
Source tarballhttp://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/install/#source
Version 1.5 (beta) released on 2004-05-30
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpage available in HTML format from http://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/enca.1/
Support contacts

Help List
Developer List
Bug List

Project contacts

Maintainers
  • David Necas
Developers
  • David Necas
Contributors
  • See the THANKS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Interfacescommand line, library
Programsenca, enconv
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisitesrecode, libiconv, Unicode::Map8, Unicode::Map, Cz::Cstocs

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-07-16
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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