Encoding util is an application and a library which attempts to guess the encoding of a given file. It will be focused on solving practical problems which I have encountered, so it might be a bit too tailored to me, and not generic enough for general use.
Currently, the following encodings are supported from parsing the BOM:
- UTF-1
- UTF-7
- UTF-8
- UTF-16 (Little Endian)
- UTF-16 (Big Endian)
- UTF-32 (Little Endian)
- UTF-32 (Big Endian)
- UTF-EBCDIC
- SCSU
- BOCU-1
- GB-18030
And the following encodings are supported from parsing the rest of the file:
- ASCII
- Printable ASCII
- UTF-8
- ISO-8859-1
- Go (v1.13+)
- GNU Make (optional)
Either run make or go build .
After compiling, the program can be run with ./encodingutil FILENAME, where FILENAME is the name of the file you want to know the encoding of.