Detextive

Investigates data to determine what the textual characteristics are.

The ratios are still fairly arbirtrary, and will need more sample/test data to mature. In addition, it may skew anglocentric in assuming primarily US-ASCII characters when determining encoding based on byte value frequency.

To install: Install-Module Detextive

Using the editorconfig library to support editorconfig settings.

Cmdlets

Documentation is automatically generated using platyPS (.\doc.cmd).

• Add-Utf8Signature — Adds the utf-8 signature (BOM) to a file.
• Get-FileContentsInfo — Returns whether the file is binary or text, and what encoding, line endings, and indents text files contain.
• Get-FileEditorConfig — Looks up the editorconfig values set for a file.
• Get-FileEncoding — Returns the detected encoding of a file.
• Get-FileIndents — Returns details about a file's indentation characters.
• Get-FileLineEndings — Returns details about a file's line endings.
• Remove-Utf8Signature — Removes the utf-8 signature (BOM) from a file.
• Repair-Encoding — Re-encodes commonly mis-encoded text.
• Repair-FileEditorConfig — Corrects a file's editorconfig settings when they differ from the actual formatting found.
• Test-BinaryFile — Returns true if a file does not appear to contain parseable text, and presumably contains binary data.
• Test-BrokenEncoding — Returns true if text contains a nonsense sequence of characters resulting from parsing text with the wrong encoding.
• Test-FileEditorConfig — Validates a file's editorconfig settings against the actual formatting found.
• Test-FinalNewline — Returns true if a file ends with a newline as required by the POSIX standard for text files.
• Test-TextFile — Returns true if a file contains text.
• Test-Utf8Encoding — Returns true if a file is parseable as UTF-8.
• Test-Utf8Signature — Returns true if a file starts with the optional UTF-8 BOM/signature.

Tests

Tests are written for Pester (.\test.cmd).