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_file

enportal: 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_dir

encheck: Guess text encoding of files in folder

usage: encheck [-h] [-gl GUESS_LENGTH] input_dir

Example

~$ 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