unicad

An elisp port of Mozilla Universal Charset Auto Detector

About

unicad.el is an Elisp program port from Mozilla universal charset auto detector. After loading unicad in GNU Emacs, it can automatically detect multiple charsets, and you will never encounter garbled files in the future.

Following coding systems can be auto detected:

* (BOM detect)
* (ascii)
* multibyte coding systems:
 - gb18030 (gb2312)
 - big5
 - sjis
 - euc-jp
 - euc-kr
 - euc-tw
 - utf-8
 - utf-16le (also without signature)
 - utf-16be (also without signature)
* singlebyte coding systems:
 - greek
  > iso-8859-7
  > windows-1253
 - russian
  > koi8-r
  > windows-1251
  > iso-8859-5
  > ibm855
 - bulgarian
  > iso-8859-5
  > windows-1251
 - sjis (singlebyte only)
* latin-1
* latin-2

Install

with melpa

M-x package-install RET unicad RET

Usage

(unicad-mode)
(unicad-mode 0)

M-x unicad-mode

LICENSE

GPLv3

Credits

unicad is written by Qichen Huang. And 室见 is the MELPA recipe author of unicad .