How do I determine file encoding in OS X?

Question

I\'m trying to enter some UTF-8 characters into a LaTeX file in TextMate (which says its default encoding is UTF-8), but LaTeX doesn\'t seem to understand them.

Runn

Answer 1

You can also convert from one file type to another using the following command :

iconv -f original_charset -t new_charset originalfile > newfile

e.g.

iconv -f utf-16le -t utf-8 file1.txt > file2.txt