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Is the a tool (mac or online) that can help me to find out the character set of a text file, and then convert it to utf-8 ?

ragnarius
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If you are using Windows try downloading Notepad++. It should recognize the encoding and offers several conversions including UTF-8.

Beaner
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  • for linux, use file -i filename
  • for mac, use file -I filename

For instance,

$ file -i readme.txt 
readme.txt: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

BTW, for converting, use iconv， for instance,

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 filename
SparkAndShine
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