![]() The file command makes “best-guesses” about the encoding. Part 1: Detect a File’s Encoding using file Linux command In part 2: I’ll show you how to change the encoding of the text files using iconv Linux command between CP1256 (Windows-1256, Cyrillic), UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and ASCII character sets. In part 1: I’ll show you how to find and detect the text files encoding in Linux systems using Linux file command available by default in all Linux distributions. ![]() You can either “for example” set your media player to use the correct encoding for your subtitles OR YOU CAN CHANGE THE ENCODING OF YOUR TEXT FILES TO A GLOBAL ACCEPTED ENCODING “UTF-8 FOR EXAMPLE” The solution for this is very simple Just knowing the text files encoding will end your problems. Sure many times you tried/needed to know/change the encoding of text files in Linux systems.Īll this because you are using a wrong encoding format for your text files. srt showed in unreadable shapes “characters” ? How many times did you want to find and detect the encoding of a text files in Linux systems? or How many times did you try to watch a movie and it’s subtitles.
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