Michal Čihař - Blog Archives for Enca

Last version of Enca has been released several months and now it's time for new release. There are various bug fixes which have been committed to the Git repository meanwhile.

If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

Full list of changes for 1.19 release:

• fix possible memory leak
• make utf-8 detection work even on one character

Still enca is in maintenance mode only and I have no intentions to write new features. However there is no limitation to other contributors, join the project at GitHub :-).

You can download from https://cihar.com/software/enca/.

It seems that I did mess it up with last version of Enca and it was not possible to install it without error. Now comes hotfix which fixes tat.

If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

Full list of changes for 1.18 release:

• fix installation of devhelp documentation

Still enca is in maintenance mode only and I have no intentions to write new features. However there is no limitation to other contributors, join the project at GitHub :-).

You can download from http://cihar.com/software/enca/.

Last version of Enca has been released more than year ago and now it's time for new release. There are various compatibility fixes which have been committed to the Git repository meanwhile.

If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

Full list of changes for 1.17 release:

• Fixed conversion of GB2312 encoding with iconv
• Fixed iconv conversion on OSX
• Documentation improvements
• Fixed execution of external converters with ACLs
• Improved test coverage to 80%

Still enca is in maintenance mode only and I have no intentions to write new features. However there is no limitation to other contributors :-).

You can download from http://cihar.com/software/enca/.

As a first tiny project in this HackWeek, Enca 1.16 has been just released. It mostly brings small code cleanups and missing aliases for languages, but fixes also some minor bugs found by Coverity Scan.

If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

Full list of changes for 1.16 release:

• Fixed typo in Belarusian language name
• Added aliases for Chinese and Yugoslavian languages

Still enca is in maintenance mode only and I have no intentions to write new features. However there is no limitation to other contributors :-).

You can download from http://cihar.com/software/enca/.

Enca 1.15 has been just released. It does not bring any new features, just a little of cleanup and officially moves it's code to GitHub.

If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

Full list of changes for 1.15 release:

• Documentation improvement
• Development moved to GitHub
• Do not use deprecated autoconf macros

Still enca is in maintenance mode only and I have no intentions to write new features. However there is no limitation to other contributors :-).

You can download from http://cihar.com/software/enca/.

Seems I've forgotten to announce Enca 1.13 here, but I won't do the same mistake with 1.14, which has been released today.

If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs. It's code is currently available at Gitorious.

The full changes for 1.14 release are short:

• Allow standard names for belarusian and slovenian languages, thanks to Branislav Geržo for suggestion.
• Reset strictness when check buffer less than file size, thanks to Sam Liao.
• Fixed typos in man page, thanks to A. Costa.

Still enca is in maintenance mode only and I have no intentions to write new features. However there is no limitation to other contributors :-).

You can download from http://cihar.com/software/enca/.

Well it has been released some time ago, but I forgot to announce it here, so here it comes - I have released Enca 1.12. If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

The full changes are short:

• Fixes some minor memory leaks.
• Fixes little problems in autoconf scripts.

You can download from http://dl.cihar.com/enca/.

After month of collecting little fixes flying around, I release Enca 1.11. If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

The full changes are short:

• Dropped scanf configure test which is not used at all.
• Fixes some wrong format strings.

You can download from http://dl.cihar.com/enca/.

As upstream author lost interest in developing Enca some time ago, I decided to step up and create another release. Basically it just folds in patches we had in Debian package for some time.

Enca is now hosted on Gitorious: http://gitorious.org/enca, you can clone git repository (I imported older releases there).

So the new release is 1.10 and the changes are quite short:

• Enca is back alive or at least in maintenance mode.
• Enca now lives in git repository, see http://gitorious.org/enca.
• Add missing charset koi8u to belarussian language.
• Fixed some typos in program and documentation.

You can download from http://dl.cihar.com/enca/.

Looking time to time to my QA page, I could not miss huge popularity boost for enca. After looking at reverse deps, I quickly found out that Mplayer from debian-multimedia is reason for this: