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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Change encoding, no removing special chars. inconv Post 303011178 by Don Cragun on Sunday 14th of January 2018 04:12:44 PM
Old 01-14-2018
You need to figure out whether the file you are trying to convert from is encoded in ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, or some other codeset. All three of the ones listed here have the lower 128 characters with the same encodings as US ASCII and all of them contain the í and ó characters, but I'm not sure if they are encoded the same way in the three listed codesets. The only way iconv can work correctly is if you correctly tell it in what codeset the file it is reading is encoded and tell it to what codeset you want the output file to be written.
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

iconv

ICONV(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ICONV(1)

NAME

     iconv -- codeset conversion utility

SYNOPSIS

     iconv [-cs] -f from_name -t to_name [file ...]
     iconv -f from_name [-cs] [-t to_name] [file ...]
     iconv -t to_name [-cs] [-f from_name] [file ...]
     iconv -l

DESCRIPTION

     The iconv utility converts the codeset of file (or from standard input if no file is specified) from codeset from_name to codeset to_name and
     outputs the converted text on standard output.

     The following options are available:

     -c    Prevent output of any invalid characters.  By default, iconv outputs an ``invalid character'' specified by the to_name codeset when it
	   encounts a character which is valid in the from_name codeset but does not have a corresponding character in the to_name codeset.

     -f    Specifies the source codeset name as from_name.

     -l    Lists available codeset names.  Note that not all combinations of from_name and to_name are valid.

     -s    Silent.  By default, iconv outputs the number of ``invalid characters'' to standard error if they exist.  This option prevents this be-
	   haviour.

     -t    Specifies the destination codeset name as to_name.

EXIT STATUS

     The iconv utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     mkcsmapper(1), mkesdb(1), iconv(3)

STANDARDS

     iconv conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY

     iconv first appeared in NetBSD 2.0, and made its appearance in FreeBSD 9.0.

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								 October 22, 2009							       BSD
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