iconv: Converting from Windows ANSI to UTF-8 with BOM

Question

I want to use iconv to convert files on my Mac. The goal is to go from \"Windows ANSI\" to \"whatever Windows Notepad saves, if you tell it to use UFT8\".

Answer 1

You can add it manually by first echoing the bytes into the file:

echo -ne '\xEF\xBB\xBF' > names.utf8.csv

and then concatenating your required information at the end:

iconv -f CP1252 -t UTF-8  names.csv >> names.utf8.csv

Note the >> rather than >.