How to convert ISO8859-15 to UTF8?

I found this to work for me:

iconv -f ISO-8859-14 Agreement.txt -t UTF-8 -o agreement.txt

I have ubuntu 14 and the other answers where no working for me

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 in.tex -o out.tex

I found this command here

We have this problem and to solve

Create a script file called to-utf8.sh

#!/bin/bashTO="UTF-8"; FILE=$1FROM=$(file -i $FILE | cut -d'=' -f2)if [[ $FROM = "binary" ]]; thenecho "Skipping binary $FILE..."exit 0fiiconv -f $FROM -t $TO -o $FILE.tmp $FILE; ERROR=$?if [[ $ERROR -eq 0 ]]; thenecho "Converting $FILE..."mv -f $FILE.tmp $FILEelseecho "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.

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 

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`doecho $iiconv -f $i -t UTF-8 yourfile | grep "hint to tell converted success or not"done &>/tmp/converted

You can use ISO-8859-9 encoding:

iconv -f ISO-8859-9 Agreement.txt -t UTF-8 -o agreement.txt

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 > OUTPUTFILE.txt or iconv -f x -t z < filename.txt > OUTPUTFILE.txt in some iconv versions)

Synopsisiconv -f encoding -t encoding inputfileDescriptionThe 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 encodingConvert characters from encoding--to-code, -t encodingConvert characters to encoding--listList known coded character sets--output, -o fileSpecify output file (instead of stdout)--verbosePrint progress information.