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

We have this problem and to solve

Create a script file called to-utf8.sh

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