Check File Encoding in Linux: Quick Guide
In Linux system, you can use the command “file” to check the character encoding of a file. Here’s how:
- Open the terminal.
- document
- the text document named filename.txt
- The system will provide information about the file’s type and character set, such as UTF-8, ISO-8859, etc.
Additionally, you can use the command “enca” to check the character encoding of a file. Here is the specific method:
- exist
- Ubuntu/Debian system: Use ‘sudo apt-get install enca’ to install.
- CentOS/RHEL systems: use sudo yum install enca
- – Encrypt
- Convert filename.txt to Chinese language.
- The system will provide information about the character set of the file, such as UTF-8, ISO-8859, etc.
The character encoding information of files in a Linux system can be viewed through those two methods.