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

Iconv just writes the converted text to stdout. You have to use -o OUTPUTFILE.txt as an parameter or write stdout to a file. (iconv -f x -t z filename.txt > OUTPUTFILE.txt or iconv -f x -t z < filename.txt > OUTPUTFILE.txt in some iconv versions)

Synopsis

iconv -f encoding -t encoding inputfile

Description

The iconv program converts the encoding of characters in inputfile from one coded character set to another. 
**The result is written to standard output unless otherwise specified by the --output option.**

--from-code, -f encoding

Convert characters from encoding

--to-code, -t encoding

Convert characters to encoding

--list

List known coded character sets

--output, -o file

Specify output file (instead of stdout)

--verbose

Print progress information.