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I have some text files which think they are encoded in utf8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators (https://github.com/samcarter/shared/blob/main/test.tx...
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character-encoding
#1: Initial revision
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samcarter
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2023-08-24T12:45:40Z (about 1 year ago)
Determine encoding of text
I have some text files which think they are encoded in utf8: ``` file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators ``` (https://github.com/samcarter/shared/blob/main/test.txt ) However if I look at their content, I think they might in reality have some other encoding: ``` ÒHi there. IÕm a test documentÓ ÒTouchŽ.Ó ``` From context, this should read as ``` “Hi there. I'm a test document” “Touché.” ``` How can I determine the original encoding of the text so that I can re-encode the file with `iconv` to hopefully get a readable text?