Cannot detect native charset for locale

[pabloab]

enca 1.19

I have a pretty common setup:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_NAME=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=es_AR.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

But

enconv: Cannot detect native charset for locale __.
You have to use the `-x' option or the DEFAULT_CHARSET environment variable to set the target encoding manually.

From man:

will tell you which encoding file FILE uses (without changing it), and
              enconv FILE
       will  convert  file  FILE  to  your  locale  native encoding

I don't know what environment variable is reading, it seems should read one of those, for e.g. LANG.

Also: The manual is wrong: -L parameter is mandatory.

[JohnTheBastard]

I'm having the same issue. Also, that is a much shorter list of languages than I was expecting. Is that related?

> locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

> enca --list languages
belarusian: CP1251 IBM866 ISO-8859-5 KOI8-UNI maccyr IBM855 KOI8-U
 bulgarian: CP1251 ISO-8859-5 IBM855 maccyr ECMA-113
     czech: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 KEYBCS2 macce KOI-8_CS_2 CORK
  estonian: ISO-8859-4 CP1257 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
  croatian: CP1250 ISO-8859-2 IBM852 macce CORK
 hungarian: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce CORK
lithuanian: CP1257 ISO-8859-4 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
   latvian: CP1257 ISO-8859-4 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
    polish: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce ISO-8859-13 ISO-8859-16 baltic CORK
   russian: KOI8-R CP1251 ISO-8859-5 IBM866 maccyr
    slovak: CP1250 ISO-8859-2 IBM852 KEYBCS2 macce KOI-8_CS_2 CORK
   slovene: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce CORK
 ukrainian: CP1251 IBM855 ISO-8859-5 CP1125 KOI8-U maccyr
   chinese: GBK BIG5 HZ
      none:

I should maybe add that I installed enca with homebrew on macOS 10.15.5.