enca:tldr:5b0d7

enca: Create a copy of an existing file using a different encoding.

enca

$ enca -L ${language} -x ${to_encoding} < ${original_file} > ${new_file}

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The command enca -L ${language} -x ${to_encoding} < ${original_file} > ${new_file} performs character encoding conversion on a file.

Here's a breakdown of the different components:

enca: This is the command used for encoding detection and conversion.
-L ${language}: Specifies the language of the text in the file. You would replace ${language} with the appropriate language code (e.g., en for English, fr for French).
-x ${to_encoding}: Specifies the target encoding to which the file should be converted. You would replace ${to_encoding} with the desired encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO-8859-1).
< ${original_file}: Redirects the input for the command from the ${original_file}. It means that the content of the ${original_file} will be provided as input to the enca command.
> ${new_file}: Redirects the output of the enca command to the ${new_file}. It means that the converted content will be saved in the ${new_file}.

In summary, the command takes a file (${original_file}), detects the current encoding based on the specified language (${language}), converts it to the target encoding (${to_encoding}), and saves the result in a new file (${new_file}).

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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