How to convert ISO8859-15 to UTF8

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I have an Arabic file encoded in ISO8859-15  How can I convert it into UTF8  I used iconv but it doesn t work for me   iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF-8 Myfile txt   I wanted to attach the file  but I don t know how

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Could it be that your file is not ISO-8859-15 encoded? You should be able to check with the file command:

file YourFile.txt

Also, you can use iconv without providing the encoding of the original file:

iconv -t UTF-8 YourFile.txt

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I got the same problem  but i find the answer in  this page  it works for me  you can try it   iconv -f cp936 -t utf-8

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in my case  the file command tells a wrong encoding  so i tried converting with all the possible encodings  and found out the right one   execute this script and check the result file   for i in  iconv -l  do    echo  i    iconv -f  i -t UTF-8 yourfile   grep  hint to tell converted success or not  done  amp  gt  tmp converted

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I found this to work for me   iconv -f ISO-8859-14 Agreement txt -t UTF-8 -o agreement txt

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We have this problem and to solve  Create a script file called to-utf8 sh     bin bash TO  UTF-8   FILE  1 FROM   file -i  FILE   cut -d    -f2  if     FROM    binary      then  echo  Skipping binary  FILE      exit 0 fi iconv -f  FROM -t  TO -o  FILE tmp  FILE  ERROR    if     ERROR -eq 0     then   echo  Converting  FILE       mv -f  FILE tmp  FILE else   echo  Error on  FILE  fi   Set the executable bit  chmod  x to-utf8 sh   Do a conversion    to-utf8 sh MyFile txt   If you want to convert all files under a folder  do  find  your folder here   xargs -n 1   to-utf8 sh   Hope it s help

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You can use ISO-8859-9 encoding   iconv -f ISO-8859-9 Agreement txt -t UTF-8 -o agreement txt

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Iconv just writes the converted text to stdout  You have to use -o OUTPUTFILE txt as an parameter or write stdout to a file   iconv -f x -t z filename txt  gt  OUTPUTFILE txt or iconv -f x -t z  lt  filename txt  gt  OUTPUTFILE txt in some iconv versions   Synopsis  iconv -f encoding -t encoding inputfile  Description  The 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     --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

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I have ubuntu 14 and the other answers where no working for me  iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 in tex  gt  out tex   I found this command here

[linux] How to convert ISO8859-15 to UTF8?

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