From 44e447a1f2826047e9f50a52a224bd4b13d13028 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: crater2150 <crater@qwertyuiop.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:53:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mdcat wrapper: allow specifying charset as $2 and use
 chardetect as fallback

---
 misc/mdcat | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/misc/mdcat b/misc/mdcat
index f244017..c78c010 100755
--- a/misc/mdcat
+++ b/misc/mdcat
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/zsh
-#dep:mdcat iconv
+#dep:mdcat iconv chardetect
 
 MDCAT=/usr/bin/mdcat
-encoding=$(file -i "$1" | sed "s/.*charset=\(.*\)$/\1/")
+#encoding=$(file -i "$1" | sed "s/.*charset=\(.*\)$/\1/")
+if [[ $2 ]]; then
+	encoding=$2
+else
+	encoding=$(chardetect "$1" | grep -oP '(?<=: )\S*')
+fi
 if ! iconv -f $encoding <<<"" &> /dev/null; then
 	cat "$1"
 elif [[ $encoding != 'utf-8' ]]; then