01-13-2018
Characters that don't exist in the target char set are difficult to convert. The
-c option would not necessarily help as it just silently deletes inconvertible chars.
Not sure what your OS / shell /
iconv versions are. Does the latter offer this option (
man iconv)
Quote:
-t to-encoding, --to-code=to-encoding
Use to-encoding for output characters.
. . .
If the string //TRANSLIT is appended to to-encoding, characters being converted are transliterated when needed and possible. This means that when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several similar looking characters. Characters that are outside of the target character set and cannot be transliterated are replaced with a question mark (?) in the output.
? Would his come close to what you need?
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iconv
ICONV(1) Linux Programmer's Manual ICONV(1)
NAME
iconv - character set conversion
SYNOPSIS
iconv [-c] [-s] [-f encoding] [-t encoding] [inputfile ...]
iconv -l
DESCRIPTION
The iconv program converts text from one encoding to another encoding. More precisely, it converts from the encoding given for the -f
option to the encoding given for the -t option. Either of these encodings defaults to the encoding of the current locale. All the input-
files are read and converted in turn; if no inputfile is given, the standard input is used. The converted text is printed to standard out-
put.
When option -c is given, characters that cannot be converted are silently discarded, instead of leading to a conversion error.
When option -s is given, error messages about invalid or unconvertible characters are omitted, but the actual converted text is unaffected.
The encodings permitted are system dependent. For the libiconv implementation, they are listed in the iconv_open(3) manual page.
The iconv -l command lists the names of the supported encodings, in a system dependent format. For the libiconv implementation, the names
are printed in upper case, separated by whitespace, and alias names of an encoding are listed on the same line as the encoding itself.
SEE ALSO
iconv_open(3)
GNU
January 13, 2002 ICONV(1)