bash iconv
ghdrako edited this page Nov 15, 2023
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converts a UTF 8 encoded file foo.txt into a latin 1 encoded file named foo.latin1.txt.
iconv -f UTF8 -t LATIN1 foo.txt > foo.latin1.txt
echo toto | iconv -f UTF-8 -t IBM-852
iconv program converts the encoding of characters in inputfile from one coded character set to another. The result is written to standard output unless otherwise specified by the --output option.
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--from-code
,-f
encoding Convert characters from encoding -
--to-code
,-t
encoding Convert characters to encoding -
--list
List known coded character sets -
--output
,-o
file Specify output file (instead of stdout) -
--verbose
Print progress information.
iconv -f ISO-8859-2 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT -o out.txt in.txt
Test