Enconv
A light wrapper around chardet to conveniently convert text files.
Install
~$ pip install enconv
Usage
enconv: Guess and convert between encodings
usage: enconv [-h] [-ie INPUT_ENCODING] [-gl GUESS_LENGTH]
[-oe OUTPUT_ENCODING] [-of OUTPUT_FILE] [-ow]
input_fileenportal: Guess and convert file encodings from source to destination folders
usage: enportal [-h] [-ie INPUT_ENCODING] [-gl GUESS_LENGTH]
[-oe OUTPUT_ENCODING] [-ow] [-i INTERVAL]
input_dir output_direncheck: Guess text encoding of files in folder
usage: encheck [-h] [-gl GUESS_LENGTH] input_dirExample
~$ enconv /Users/me/Downloads/chinese.txt
Guess: {'encoding': 'GB2312', 'confidence': 0.99, 'language': 'Chinese'}
Wrote to /Users/me/Downloads/chinese.txt.utf-8 in utf-8
