Analyze how to view and modify the Linux File Encoding

There are more than one way to view and modify file encoding in Linux. If you need to operate files in windows in Linux, you may frequently encounter file encoding conversion problems, how to do this should also be the knowledge that the operator who often works in the dual system must master.

In Windows, the default file format is GBK (gb2312), while Linux is generally a UTF-8. The following describes how to view the file encoding in Linux and how to convert the file encoding.

View File Encoding

You can view the file encoding in Linux in the following ways:

1. You can directly view the file encoding in Vim.

: Set fileencoding

The file encoding format is displayed.

If you only want to view files in other encoding formats or want to solve the problem of using Vim to View File garbled characters, you can

~ /Add the following content to the vimrc file:

Set encoding = UTF-8 fileencodings = ucs-bom, UTF-8, cp936

In this way, vim can automatically identify the file encoding can automatically identify the UTF-8 or GBK encoding files), in fact, according to the fileencodings provided by the encoding list to try, if not find the appropriate encoding, it is opened in latin-1 (ASCII) encoding.

2. enca (if this command is not installed in your system, you can use sudo yum install-y enca to install it) to view the file encoding.

$ Enca filename

Filename: Universal transformation format 8 bits; UTF-8

CRLF line terminators

Note that enca does not recognize some GBK-encoded files very well:

Unrecognized encoding

File encoding and conversion

1. Convert the file encoding directly in Vim. For example, convert a file to UTF-8 format.

: Sets fileencoding = UTF-8

2. enconv conversion file encoding, for example, to convert a GBK encoded file into UTF-8 encoding, the operation is as follows

Enconv-L zh_CN-x UTF-8 filename

3. iconv conversion. The iconv command format is as follows:

Iconv-f encoding-t encoding inputfile

For example, converting a UTF-8-encoded file into GBK Encoding

Iconv-f GBK-t UTF-8 file1-o file2

Viewing and modifying the Linux file encoding is a simple task.