Detecting and changing the encoding of text files on Linux

Posted by linuxaria on Jun 22, 2011 2:34 AM EDT
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Today post is by Juan Valencia, originally posted on his blog, i’ve found it really interesting with in deep articles regarding rsync,ssh and other commands. When you receive and need to handle multiple text files that use characters that are not natural to the English language, you may run into the problem that is dealing with different character encodings. This is particularly noticeable in websites, where if the browser try to interpret the text file with an encoding that differs from the actual encoding that the file is using, we can see strange symbols where this characters were supposed to show, but it is not limited to websites, any program that is made to work with languages other than English may present a similar problem if it is not appropriately handled.

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