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enca:tldr:5b0d7
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 theenca
command. -
> ${new_file}
: Redirects the output of theenca
command to the${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}
).