Unix: Check File is UTF-8 Encoding or Not

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jianming Li

Contents

  1. Example
  2. References
 
iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-4 < myfile >/dev/null
# No error means utf-8 encoding
# Error means NOT utf-8 encoding

Example

 
$ iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-4 < utf8_file >/dev/null
$ iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-4 < non_utf8_file >/dev/null
iconv: conversion error
Conversion error detected while processing stdin.

References

* How can I be sure of the file encoding?

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