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How to convert ISO8859-15 to UTF8?

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.

Solution

  • 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