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

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