How to convert ISO8859-15 to UTF8?

Question

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          


        

Answer 1

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