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enca(1)								       enca(1)

NAME
       enca -- detect and convert encoding of text files

SYNOPSIS
       enca [-L LANGUAGE] [OPTION]... [FILE]...
       enconv [-L LANGUAGE] [OPTION]... [FILE]...

INTRODUCTION AND EXAMPLES
       If you are lucky enough, the only two things you will ever need to know
       are: command

	      enca FILE

       will tell you which encoding file FILE uses (without changing it), and

	      enconv FILE

       will convert file FILE to your locale native encoding.  To convert  the
       file  to some other encoding use the -x option (see -x entry in section
       OPTIONS and sections CONVERSION and ENCODINGS for details).

       Both work with multiple files and standard input (output) too.  E.g.

	      enca -x latin2 <sometext | lpr

       assures file `sometext' is in ISO Latin 2 when it's sent to printer.

       The main reason why these command will fail and turn  your  files  into
       garbage	is that Enca needs to know their language to detect the encod‐
       ing.  It tries to determine your language and  preferred	 charset  from
       locale settings, which might not be what you want.

       You can (or have to) use -L option to tell it the right language.  Sup‐
       pose, you downloaded some Russian HTML file, `file.htm', it claims it's
       windows-1251 but it isn't.  So you run

	      enca -L ru file.htm

       and find out it's KOI8-R (for example).	Be warned, currently there are
       not many supported languages (see section LANGUAGES).

       Another warning concerns the fact several Enca's features,  namely  its
       charset	conversion  capabilities,  strongly depend on what other tools
       are installed on your system (see section CONVERSION)--run

	      enca --version

       to get list of features (see section FEATURES).	Also try

	      enca --help

       to get description of all other Enca options (and to find the  rest  of
       this manual page redundant).

DESCRIPTION
       Enca reads given text files, or standard input when none are given, and
       uses knowledge about their language (must be supported by  you)	and  a
       mixture	of  parsing, statistical analysis, guessing and black magic to
       determine their encodings, which it then prints to standard output  (or
       it  confesses it doesn't have any idea what the encoding could be).  By
       default, Enca presents results as a multiline  human-readable  descrip‐
       tions,  several	other formats are available--see Output type selectors
       below.

       Enca can also convert files to some other encoding ENC when you ask for
       it--either  using  a built-in converter, some conversion library, or by
       calling an external converter.

       Enca's primary goal is to be usable unattended, as an automatic conver‐
       sion  tool,  though  it perhaps have not reached this point yet (please
       see section SECURITY).

       Please note except rare cases Enca really has to know the  language  of
       input  files  to give you a reliable answer.  On the other hand, it can
       then cope quite well with files that are not  purely  textual  or  even
       detect  charset	of text strings inside some binary file; of course, it
       depends on the character of the non-text component.

       Enca doesn't care about structure of input files, it views  them	 as  a
       uniform	piece  of  text/data.	In case of multipart files (e.g. mail‐
       boxes), you have to use some tool knowing the structure to extract  the
       individual  parts  first.  It's the cost of ability to detect encodings
       of any damaged, incomplete or otherwise incorrect files.

OPTIONS
       There are several categories of options: operation mode options, output
       type  selectors,	 guessing  parameters,	conversion parameters, general
       options and listings.

       All long options can be abbreviated as long as  they  are  unambiguous,
       mandatory  parameters  of  long options are mandatory for short options
       too.

   Operation modes
       are following:

       -c, --auto-convert
	      Equivalent to calling Enca as enconv.

	      If no output type selector is specified, detect file  encodings,
	      guess  your preferred charset from locales, and convert files to
	      it (only available with +target-charset-auto feature).

       -g, --guess
	      Equivalent to calling Enca as enca.

	      If no output type selector is specified, detect  file  encodings
	      and report them.

   Output type selectors
       select what action Enca will take when it determines the encoding; most
       of them just choose between different names,  formats  and  conventions
       how encodings can be printed, but one of them (-x) is special: it tells
       Enca to recode files to some other encoding  ENC.   These  options  are
       mutually	 exclusive;  if you specify more than one output type selector
       the last one takes precedence.

       Several output types represent charset name used by some other program,
       but not all these programs know all the charsets which Enca recognises.
       Be warned, Enca makes no difference between  unrecognised  charset  and
       charset having no name in given namespace in such situations.

       -d, --details
	      It  used	to  print  a  few  pages of details about the guessing
	      process, but since Enca is just a program	 linked	 against  Enca
	      library, this is not possible and this option is roughly equiva‐
	      lent to --human-readable, except it reports failure reason  when
	      Enca doesn't recognize the encoding.

       -e, --enca-name
	      Prints  Enca's  nice name of the charset, i.e., perhaps the most
	      generally accepted and more or less human-readable charset iden‐
	      tifier, with surfaces appended.

	      This name is used when calling an external converter, too.

       -f, --human-readable
	      Prints  verbal  description  of  the  detected  charset and sur‐
	      faces--something a human understands best.  This is the  default
	      behaviour.

	      The precise format is following: the first line contains charset
	      name alone, and it's followed by zero  or	 more  indented	 lines
	      containing names of detected surfaces.  This format is not, how‐
	      ever, suitable or intended for further  machine-processing,  and
	      the  verbal  charset  descriptions  are  like  to	 change in the
	      future.

       -i, --iconv-name
	      Prints  how  iconv(3)  (and/or  iconv(1))	 calls	the   detected
	      charset.	 More precisely, it prints one, more or less arbitrar‐
	      ily chosen, alias accepted by iconv.  A charset unknown to iconv
	      counts as unknown.

	      This  output  type  makes	 sense only when Enca is compiled with
	      iconv support (feature +iconv-interface).

       -r, --rfc1345-name
	      Prints RFC 1345 charset name.  When such a  name	doesn't	 exist
	      because  RFC  1345  doesn't  define a given encoding, some other
	      name defined in some other RFC or just  the  name	 which	author
	      considers `the most canonical', is printed.

	      Since  RFC  1345	doesn't	 define	 surfaces,  no surface info is
	      appended.

       -m, --mime-name
	      Prints preferred MIME name of detected  charset.	 This  is  the
	      name you should normally use when fixing e-mails or web pages.

	      A charset not present in http://www.iana.org/assignments/charac‐
	      ter-sets counts as unknown.

       -s, --cstocs-name
	      Prints how cstocs(1) calls  the  detected	 charset.   A  charset
	      unknown to cstocs counts as unknown.

       -n, --name=WORD
	      Prints charset (encoding) name selected by WORD (can be abbrevi‐
	      ated as long  as	is  unambiguous).   For	 names	listed	above,
	      --name=WORD is equivalent to --WORD.

	      Using  aliases  as  the output type causes Enca to print list of
	      all accepted aliases of detected charset.

       -x, --convert-to=[..]ENC
	      Converts file to encoding ENC.

	      The optional `..' before encoding name has no  special  meaning,
	      except  you  can	use  it	 to  remind  yourself  that, unlike in
	      recode(1), you should specify desired encoding, instead of  cur‐
	      rent.

	      You  can	use  recode(1)	recoding  chains  or any other kind of
	      braindead recoding specification for ENC, provided that you tell
	      Enca  to use some tool understanding it for conversion (see sec‐
	      tion CONVERSION).

	      When Enca fails to determine the encoding, it prints  a  warning
	      and  leaves  the	the  file as is; when it is run as a filter it
	      tries to do its best to copy standard input to  standard	output
	      unchanged.   Nevertheless,  you  should  not  rely  on it and do
	      backup.

   Guessing parameters
       There's only one: -L setting language of input files.  This  option  is
       mandatory (but see below).

       -L, --language=LANG
	      Sets language of input files to LANG.

	      More precisely, LANG can be any valid locale name (or alias with
	      +locale-alias feature) of some supported language.  You can also
	      specify  `none'  as  language name, only multibyte encodings are
	      recognised then.	Run

	      enca --list languages

	      to get list of supported languages.  When you don't specify  any
	      language	Enca tries to guess your language from locale settings
	      and assumes input files use this	language.   See	 section  LAN‐
	      GUAGES for details.

   Conversion parameters
       give  you  finer	 control  of how charset conversion will be performed.
       They don't affect anything when -x is not  specified  as	 output	 type.
       Please see section CONVERSION for the gory conversion details.

       -C, --try-converters=LIST
	      Appends comma separated LIST to the list of converters that will
	      be tried when you ask for conversion.  Their names can be abbre‐
	      viated as long as they are unambiguous.  Run

	      enca --list converters

	      to  get  list of all valid converter names (and see section CON‐
	      VERSION for their description).

	      The default list depends on how Enca has been compiled, run

	      enca --help

	      to find out default converter list.

	      Note the default list is used only when you don't specify -C  at
	      all.  Otherwise, the list is built as if it were initially empty
	      and every -C adds new converter(s) to it.	 Moreover,  specifying
	      none as converter name causes clearing the converter list.

       -E, --external-converter-program=PATH
	      Sets  external converter program name to PATH.  Default external
	      converter depends on how enca has been complied, and the	possi‐
	      bility  to  use external converters may not be available at all.
	      Run

	      enca --help

	      to find out default converter program in your enca build.

   General options
       don't fit to other option categories...

       -p, --with-filename
	      Forces Enca to prefix each result with corresponding file	 name.
	      By  default,  Enca  prefixes  results with filenames when run on
	      multiple files.

	      Standard input is printed as STDIN and standard output as STDOUT
	      (the latter can be probably seen in error messages only).

       -P, --no-filename
	      Forces  Enca to not prefix results with file names.  By default,
	      Enca doesn't prefix result with file name when run on  a	single
	      file (including standard input).

       -V, --verbose
	      Increases verbosity level (each use increases it by one).

	      Currently this option in not very useful because different parts
	      of Enca respond differently to the same verbosity level,	mostly
	      not at all.

   Listings
       are  all terminal, i.e. when Enca encounters some of them it prints the
       required	 listing  and  terminates  without  processing	any  following
       options.

       -h, --help
	      Prints brief usage help.

       -G, --license
	      Prints full Enca license (through a pager, if possible).

       -l, --list=WORD
	      Prints  list specified by WORD (can be abbreviated as long as it
	      is unambiguous).	Available lists include:

	      built-in-charsets.  All encodings convertible by	built-in  con‐
	      verter,  by  group  (both input and output encoding must be from
	      this list and belong to the same group for internal conversion).

	      built-in-encodings.  Equivalent to built-in-charsets,  but  con‐
	      sidered obsolete; will be accepted with a warning, for a while.

	      converters.  All valid converter names (to be used with -C).

	      charsets.	  All encodings (charsets).  You can select what names
	      will be printed with --name or any name output type selector (of
	      course,  only encodings having a name in given namespace will be
	      printed then), the selector must be specified before --list.

	      encodings.  Equivalent to	 charsets,  but	 considered  obsolete;
	      will be accepted with a warning, for a while.

	      languages.   All	supported  languages  together	with  charsets
	      belonging to them.   Note	 output	 type  selects	language  name
	      style, not charset name style here.

	      names.  All possible values of --name option.

	      lists.  All possible values of this option.  (Crazy?)

	      surfaces.	 All surfaces Enca recognises.

       -v, --version
	      Prints  program  version	and list of features (see section FEA‐
	      TURES).

CONVERSION
       Though Enca has been originally designed as a tool for guessing	encod‐
       ing  only,  it now features several methods of charset conversion.  You
       can control which of them will be used with -C.

       Enca sequentially tries converters from the list specified by -C	 until
       it  finds  some that is able to perform required conversion or until it
       exhausts the list.  You should specify preferred converters first, less
       preferred  later.   External converter (extern) should be always speci‐
       fied last, only as last resort, since  it's  usually  not  possible  to
       recover	when  it  fails.  The default list of converters always starts
       with built-in and then continues with the  first	 one  available	 from:
       librecode, iconv, nothing.

       It should be noted when Enca says it is not able to perform the conver‐
       sion it only means none of the converters is able to  perform  it.   It
       can  be	still  possible	 to perform the required conversion in several
       steps, using several converters, but to figure out how, human  intelli‐
       gence is probably needed.

   Built-in converter
       is  the	simplest  and  far  the fastest of all, can perform only a few
       byte-to-byte conversions and modifies files directly in place  (may  be
       considered  dangerous,  but  is pretty efficient).  You can get list of
       all encodings it can convert with

	      enca --list built-in

       Beside speed, its main advantage (and also  disadvantage)  is  that  it
       doesn't	care: it simply converts characters having a representation in
       target encoding, doesn't touch anything else and never prints any error
       message.

       This converter can be specified as built-in with -C.

   Librecode converter
       is  an  interface  to GNU recode library, that does the actual recoding
       job.  It may or may not be compiled in; run

	      enca --version

       to find out its	availability  in  your	enca  build  (feature  +libre‐
       code-interface).

       You  should be familiar with recode(1) before using it, since recode is
       a quite sophisticated and powerful charset conversion  tool.   You  may
       run  into  problems  using  it  together with Enca particularly because
       Enca's support for surfaces not 100% compatible, because	 recode	 tries
       too  hard  to  make the transformation reversible, because it sometimes
       silently ignores I/O errors, and because it's incredibly buggy.	Please
       see GNU recode info pages for details about recode library.

       This converter can be specified as librecode with -C.

   Iconv converter
       is  an  interface  to the UNIX98 iconv(3) conversion functions, that do
       the actual recoding job.	 It may or may not be compiled in; run

	      enca --version

       to find out its availability in your enca build (feature	 +iconv-inter‐
       face).

       While  iconv is present on most today systems it only rarely offer some
       useful set of available conversions, the only notable  exception	 being
       iconv  from  GNU	 libc.	 It is usually quite picky about surfaces, too
       (while, at the same time, not  implementing  surface  conversion).   It
       however	probably  represents the only standard(ized) tool able to per‐
       form conversion from/to Unicode.	 Please see iconv documentation	 about
       for details about its capabilities on your particular system.

       This converter can be specified as iconv with -C.

   External converter
       is  an arbitrary external conversion tool that can be specified with -E
       option (at most one can be defined  simultaneously).   There  are  some
       standard,  provided  together with enca: cstocs, recode, map, umap, and
       piconv.	All are wrapper scripts:  for  cstocs(1),  recode(1),  map(1),
       umap(1), and piconv(1).

       Please  note enca has little control what the external converter really
       does.  If you set it to /bin/rm you are fully responsible for the  con‐
       sequences.

       If  you	want  to  make your own converter to use with enca, you should
       know it is always called

	      CONVERTER ENC_CURRENT ENC FILE [-]

       where CONVERTER is what has been set by	-E,  ENC_CURRENT  is  detected
       encoding,  ENC is what has been specified with -x, and FILE is the file
       to convert, i.e. it is called for each file separately.	 The  optional
       fourth parameter, -, should cause (when present) sending result of con‐
       version to standard output instead of overwriting the file  FILE.   The
       converter  should  also	take  care  of	not changing file permissions,
       returning error code 1 when it fails and cleaning its temporary	files.
       Please see the standard external converters for examples.

       This converter can be specified as extern with -C.

   Default target charset
       The  straightforward way of specifying target charset is the -x option,
       which overrides any defaults.  When Enca is called as  enconv,  default
       target charset is selected exactly the same way as recode(1) does it.

       If  the	DEFAULT_CHARSET	 environment variable is set, it's used as the
       target charset.

       Otherwise, if you system provides the nl_langinfo(3) function,  current
       locale's native charset is used as the target charset.

       When both methods fail, Enca complains and terminates.

   Reversibility notes
       If  reversibility  is  crucial  for you, you shouldn't use enca as con‐
       verter at all (or  maybe	 you  can,  with  very	specifically  designed
       recode(1) wrapper).  Otherwise you should at least know that there four
       basic means of handling inconvertible character entities:

       fail--this is a possibility, too, and incidentally  it's	 exactly  what
       current	GNU libc iconv implementation does (recode can be also told to
       do it)

       don't touch them--this is what enca internal converter always does  and
       recode  can  do;	 though it is not reversible, a human being is usually
       able to reconstruct the original (at least in principle)

       approximate them--this is what cstocs can do, and  recode  too,	though
       differently;  and the best choice if you just want to make the accursed
       text readable

       drop them out--this is what both recode and cstocs can do  (cstocs  can
       also  replace  these characters by some fixed character instead of mere
       ignoring); useful when the to-be-omitted characters contain only noise.

       Please consult your favourite converter	manual	for  details  of  this
       issue.	Generally, if you are not lucky enough to have all convertible
       characters in you file, manual intervention is needed anyway.

   Performance notes
       Poor performance of available converters has been one of	 main  reasons
       for  including built-in converter in enca.  Try to use it whenever pos‐
       sible, i.e. when files in consideration	are  charset-clean  enough  or
       charset-messy  enough  so  that	its zero built-in intelligence doesn't
       matter.	It requires no extra disk space nor extra memory and can  out‐
       perform	recode(1)  more	 than 10 times on large files and Perl version
       (i.e. the faster one) of cstocs(1) more than 400 times on  small	 files
       (in fact it's almost as fast as mere cp(1)).

       Try  to	avoid  external	 converters when it's not absolutely necessary
       since all the forking and moving stuff around is incredibly slow.

ENCODINGS
       You can get list of recognised character sets with

	      enca --list charsets

       and using --name parameter you can select any name you want to be  used
       in the listing.	You can also list all surfaces with

	      enca --list surfaces

       Encoding	 and  surface  names are case insensitive and non-alphanumeric
       characters are not taken into account.  However, non-alphanumeric char‐
       acters  are mostly not allowed at all.  The only allowed are: `-', `_',
       `.', `:', and `/' (as  charset/surface  separator).   So	 `ibm852'  and
       `IBM-852' are the same, while `IBM 852' is not accepted.

   Charsets
       Following list of recognised charsets uses Enca's names (-e) and verbal
       descriptions as reported by Enca (-f):

       ASCII	     7bit ASCII characters
       ISO-8859-2    ISO 8859-2 standard; ISO Latin 2
       ISO-8859-4    ISO 8859-4 standard; Latin 4
       ISO-8859-5    ISO 8859-5 standard; ISO Cyrillic
       ISO-8859-13   ISO 8859-13 standard; ISO Baltic; Latin 7
       ISO-8859-16   ISO 8859-16 standard
       CP1125	     MS-Windows code page 1125
       CP1250	     MS-Windows code page 1250
       CP1251	     MS-Windows code page 1251
       CP1257	     MS-Windows code page 1257; WinBaltRim
       IBM852	     IBM/MS code page 852; PC (DOS) Latin 2
       IBM855	     IBM/MS code page 855
       IBM775	     IBM/MS code page 775
       IBM866	     IBM/MS code page 866
       baltic	     ISO-IR-179; Baltic
       KEYBCS2	     Kamenicky encoding; KEYBCS2
       macce	     Macintosh Central European
       maccyr	     Macintosh Cyrillic
       ECMA-113	     Ecma Cyrillic; ECMA-113
       KOI-8_CS_2    KOI8-CS2 code (`T602')
       KOI8-R	     KOI8-R Cyrillic
       KOI8-U	     KOI8-U Cyrillic
       KOI8-UNI	     KOI8-Unified Cyrillic
       TeX	     (La)TeX control sequences
       UCS-2	     Universal character set 2 bytes; UCS-2; BMP
       UCS-4	     Universal character set 4 bytes; UCS-4; ISO-10646
       UTF-7	     Universal transformation format 7 bits; UTF-7
       UTF-8	     Universal transformation format 8 bits; UTF-8
       CORK	     Cork encoding; T1
       GBK	     Simplified Chinese National Standard; GB2312
       BIG5	     Traditional Chinese Industrial Standard; Big5
       HZ	     HZ encoded GB2312
       unknown	     Unrecognized encoding

       where unknown is not any real encoding, it's reported when Enca is  not
       able to give a reliable answer.

   Surfaces
       Enca  has some experimental support for so-called surfaces (see below).
       It detects following surfaces (not all can be applied to all charsets):

       /CR     CR line terminators
       /LF     LF line terminators
       /CRLF   CRLF line terminators
       N.A.    Mixed line terminators
       N.A.    Surrounded by/intermixed with non-text data
       /21     Byte order reversed in pairs (1,2 -> 2,1)
       /4321   Byte order reversed in quadruples (1,2,3,4 -> 4,3,2,1)
       N.A.    Both little and big endian chunks, concatenated
       /qp     Quoted-printable encoded

       Note some surfaces have N.A. in place  of  identifier--they  cannot  be
       specified  on command line, they can only be reported by Enca.  This is
       intentional because they only inform you why the file cannot be consid‐
       ered surface-consistent instead of representing a real surface.

       Each charset has its natural surface (called `implied' in recode) which
       is not reported, e.g., for IBM 852 charset  it's	 `CRLF	line  termina‐
       tors'.  For UCS encodings, big endian is considered as natural surface;
       unusual byte orders are constructed from 21 and 4321 permutations: 2143
       is reported simply as 21, while 3412 is reported as combination of 4321
       and 21.

       Doubly-encoded  UTF-8  is  neither  charset  nor	 surface,  it's	  just
       reported.

   About charsets, encodings and surfaces
       Charset	is a set of character entities while encoding is its represen‐
       tation in the terms of bytes and bits.	In  Enca,  the	word  encoding
       means  the  same as `representation of text', i.e. the relation between
       sequence of character entities constituting the text  and  sequence  of
       bytes (bits) constituting the file.

       So, encoding is both character set and so-called surface (line termina‐
       tors, byte order, combining, Base64 transformation,  etc.).   Neverthe‐
       less, it proves convenient to work with some {charset,surface} pairs as
       with genuine charsets.  So, as in recode(1), all UCS- and  UTF-	encod‐
       ings of Universal character set are called charsets.  Please see recode
       documentation for more details of this issue.

       The only good thing about surfaces is: when  you	 don't	start  playing
       with  them,  neither Enca won't start and it will try to behave as much
       as possible as a surface-unaware program, even when talking to recode.

LANGUAGES
       Enca needs to know the language of input files  to  work	 reliably,  at
       least  in case of regular 8bit encoding.	 Multibyte encodings should be
       recognised for any Latin, Cyrillic or Greek language.

       You can (or have to) use -L option to tell Enca	the  language.	 Since
       people  most  often work with files in the same language for which they
       have configured locales, Enca tries tries  to  guess  the  language  by
       examining  value	 of  LC_CTYPE  and other locale categories (please see
       locale(7)) and using it for the language when you  don't	 specify  any.
       Of  course,  it	may  be	 completely  wrong  and will give you nonsense
       answers and damage your files, so please don't forget  to  use  the  -L
       option.	You can also use ENCAOPT environment variable to set a default
       language (see section ENVIRONMENT).

       Following languages are supported by  Enca  (each  language  is	listed
       together with supported 8bit encodings).

       Belarussian   CP1251 IBM866 ISO-8859-5 KOI8-UNI maccyr IBM855
       Bulgarian     CP1251 ISO-8859-5 IBM855 maccyr ECMA-113
       Czech	     ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 KEYBCS2 macce KOI-8_CS_2 CORK
       Estonian	     ISO-8859-4 CP1257 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
       Croatian	     CP1250 ISO-8859-2 IBM852 macce CORK
       Hungarian     ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce CORK
       Lithuanian    CP1257 ISO-8859-4 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic

       Latvian	     CP1257 ISO-8859-4 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
       Polish	     ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce ISO-8859-13 ISO-8859-16 baltic CORK
       Russian	     KOI8-R CP1251 ISO-8859-5 IBM866 maccyr
       Slovak	     CP1250 ISO-8859-2 IBM852 KEYBCS2 macce KOI-8_CS_2 CORK
       Slovene	     ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce CORK
       Ukrainian     CP1251 IBM855 ISO-8859-5 CP1125 KOI8-U maccyr
       Chinese	     GBK BIG5 HZ
       none

       The  special  language none can be shortened to __, it contains no 8bit
       encodings, so only multibyte encodings are detected.

       You can also use locale names instead of languages:

       Belarussian     be
       Bulgarian       bg
       Czech	       cs
       Estonian	       et
       Croatian	       hr
       Hungarian       hu
       Lithuanian      lt
       Latvian	       lv
       Polish	       pl
       Russian	       ru
       Slovak	       sk
       Slovene	       sl
       Ukrainian       uk
       Chinese	       zh

FEATURES
       Several Enca's features depend on what is available on your system  and
       how it was compiled.  You can get their list with

	      enca --version

       Plus  sign before a feature name means it's available, minus sign means
       this build lacks the particular feature.

       librecode-interface.  Enca has interface to GNU recode library  charset
       conversion functions.

       iconv-interface.	 Enca has interface to UNIX98 iconv charset conversion
       functions.

       external-converter.  Enca can use external conversion programs (if  you
       have some suitable installed).

       language-detection.   Enca  tries  to guess language (-L) from locales.
       You don't need the --language option, at least in principle.

       locale-alias.  Enca is able to decrypt locale aliases used for language
       names.

       target-charset-auto.   Enca tries to detect your preferred charset from
       locales.	 Option --auto-convert and calling Enca as  enconv  works,  at
       least in principle.

       ENCAOPT.	  Enca	is  able  to correctly parse this environment variable
       before command line parameters.	Simple stuff like ENCAOPT="-L uk" will
       work even without this feature.

ENVIRONMENT
       The variable ENCAOPT can hold set of default Enca options.  Its content
       is interpreted before  command  line  arguments.	  Unfortunately,  this
       doesn't work everywhere (must have +ENCAOPT feature).

       LC_CTYPE,  LC_COLLATE,  LC_MESSAGES  (possibly inherited from LC_ALL or
       LANG) is used for guessing your language (must have +language-detection
       feature).

       The  variable DEFAULT_CHARSET can be used by enconv as the default tar‐
       get charset.

DIAGNOSTICS
       Enca returns exit code 0 when all input files  were  successfully  pro‐
       ceeded  (i.e.  all encodings were detected and all files were converted
       to required encoding, if conversion was asked for).   Exit  code	 1  is
       returned when Enca wasn't able to either guess encoding or perform con‐
       version on any input file because it's not clever enough.  Exit code  2
       is returned in case of serious (e.g. I/O) troubles.

SECURITY
       It  should be possible to let Enca work unattended, it's its goal. How‐
       ever:

       There's no warranty the detection works 100%. Don't bet on it, you  can
       easily lose valuable data.

       Don't  use enca (the program), link to libenca instead if you want any‐
       thing resembling security. You have to perform the eventual  conversion
       yourself then.

       Don't use external converters. Ideally, disable them compile-time.

       Be  aware  of  ENCAOPT  and all the built-in automagic guessing various
       things from environment, namely locales.

SEE ALSO
       autoconvert(1), cstocs(1), file(1), iconv(1), iconv(3), nl_langinfo(3),
       map(1),	piconv(1),  recode(1),	locale(5), locale(7), ltt(1), umap(1),
       unicode(7), utf-8(7), xcode(1)

KNOWN BUGS
       It has too many unknown bugs.

       The idea of using LC_* value for language is certainly braindead.  How‐
       ever I like it.

       It can't backup files before mangling them.

       In certain situations, it may behave incorrectly on >31bit file systems
       and/or over NFS (both untested but shouldn't cause  problems  in	 prac‐
       tice).

       Built-in	 converter  does not convert character `ch' from KOI8-CS2, and
       possibly some other characters you've probably never heard  about  any‐
       way.

       EOL  type  recognition  works poorly on Quoted-printable encoded files.
       This should be fixed someday.

       There are no command line options to tune libenca parameters.  This  is
       intentional (Enca should DWIM) but sometimes this is a nuisance.

       The  manual  page  is  too long, especially this section.  This doesn't
       matter since nobody does read it.

       Send bug reports to <https://github.com/nijel/enca/issues>.

TRIVIA
       Enca is Extremely Naive	Charset	 Analyser.   Nevertheless,  the	 `enc'
       originally  comes  from `encoding' so the leading `e' should be read as
       in `encoding' not as in `extreme'.

AUTHORS
       David Necas (Yeti) <yeti@physics.muni.cz>

       Michal Cihar <michal@cihar.com>

       Unicode data has been generated from various (free)  on-line  resources
       or  using GNU recode.  Statistical data has been generated from various
       texts on the Net, I hope	 character  counting  doesn't  break  anyone's
       copyright.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
       Please see the file THANKS in distribution.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2000-2003 David Necas (Yeti).

       Copyright (C) 2009 Michal Cihar <michal@cihar.com>.

       Enca  is	 free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License	 as  published
       by the Free Software Foundation.

       Enca is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
       WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or  FIT‐
       NESS  FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	See the GNU General Public License for
       more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
       with  Enca;  if	not,  write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
       Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

enca 1.11			   Sep 2009			       enca(1)
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