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)
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ICONV(1) Debian GNU/Linux ICONV(1)NAME
iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another
SYNOPSIS
iconv -f encoding [-t encoding] [inputfile]...
DESCRIPTION
The iconv program converts the encoding of characters in inputfile, or from the standard input if no filename is specified, 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. If not specified the encoding corresponding to the current locale is used.
--list, -l
List known coded character sets.
-c Omit invalid characters from output.
--output, -o file
Specify output file (instead of stdout).
--silent, -s
Suppress warnings, but not errors.
--verbose
Print progress information.
--help, -?
Give help list.
--usage
Give a short usage message.
--version, -V
Print program version.
ENCODINGS
The values permitted for --from-code and --to-code can be listed by the iconv --list command, and all combinations of the listed values are
supported. Furthermore the following two suffixes are supported:
//TRANSLIT
When the string "//TRANSLIT" is appended to --to-code, transliteration is activated. This means that when a character cannot be
represented in the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters.
//IGNORE
When the string "//IGNORE" is appended to --to-code, characters that cannot be represented in the target character set will be
silently discarded.
AUTHOR
iconv was written by Ulrich Drepper as part of the GNU C Library.
This man page was written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
3rd Berkeley Distribution lenny ICONV(1)
In perl I want to do remove the top line of my input file then process the next line. I want to do something like
head -1 inputfile > temp
grep -v temp inputfile > newinputfile
cp newinputfile inputfle
is this possible in perl? (3 Replies)
I want to use iconv.h to convert some text to another charset.
The code is below:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iconv.h>
int main()
{
iconv_t cd;
char instr="汉字";
char *inbuf;
char *outbuf;
unsigned int insize=7;
... (4 Replies)
:) Hi
i am trying to convert a file which is in UTF8 format to ANSI format i tried to use the function ICONV but it is throwing error
Function i used it as
$ iconv -f UTF8 -t ANSI filename
Error iam getting is NOT Supported UTF8 to ANSI
please some help me out on this.........Let me... (1 Reply)
#!/bin/sh
# Solo para Argentina :s
# License: Sisterware
# este script necesita curl e iconv, iconv es porque los del servicio meteorologico no usan utf-8 ¬¬
# 87938 = Ushuaia
# 87934 = Rio Grande
# 87418 = Mendoza
# 87582 = Capital Federal
# 87692 = Mar del Plata
# 87480 = Rosario
#... (1 Reply)
#!/bin/sh
#Argentina Only :s
# This script requires curl and iconv, iconv is because they do not use Weather Service utf-8 ¬¬
# 87938 = Ushuaia
# 87934 = Rio Grande
# 87418 = Mendoza
# 87582 = Capital Federal
# 87692 = Mar del Plata
# 87480 = Rosario
# 87344 = Cordoba
# 87371 = Santa Fe
... (8 Replies)
hey,
I am trying to convert a sample russian encoding file to English encoding using iconv utility.
Its almost done but with each converted character i am getting one extra character which must not come.
my sample Russian text is
test.txt
А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К ~
and script which i... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I want to cross-compile libiconv for uclinux to create a static library. I use the following command :
./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=nios2-unknown-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/captain/Programs/nios2-linux/uClinux-dist/staging/usr... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am stuck... i dunno why does my test fail... any idea ?
#!/bin/bash
dos2unix info.txt
Distor=Distributeur
LINE=$(cat info.txt | sed -n 1p)
echo $LINE
echo $Distor
echo ""
echo "123-$LINE-123"
echo "123-$Distor-123"
if ; then
LINE2=$(cat info.txt | sed -n 2p)
echo $Distor... (14 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am not able to conver character set from UTF-8 to IBM-284 throwing an error "cannot open convertor" . Could you please help me how to get out of this error.
Below command is working fine
iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t UTF-8 fromfile.txt > tofile.txt
But the below command is... (2 Replies)
I need to convert a utf16 file to utf8. When i use the iconv command to do so it gives an error saying invalid function.
When I ran the iconv -l function it did not list the utf16 and utf8 as part of its internal table. Is there anyway I can add these encodings in the library? Is there any other... (3 Replies)
Hi
I am using iconv command to convert the encoding of files.
Below is the command used:
iconv -f UCS-2 -t UTF-8 inputfile.txt> outputfile.txt
The command is working fine for files less than 2GB.
When I try converting the files of more than 2GB size I get an error as 'Can't open file'. I... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using iconv to convert huge files. the process is getting killed. I tried the option in below link
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/258825-iconv-large-files.html
i.e
iconv -f UCS-2 -t UTF-8 < inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
However, the process still gets... (4 Replies)
Hi all!!
I´m using command file -i myfile.xml to validate XML file encoding, but it is just saying regular file . I´m expecting / looking an output as UTF8 or ANSI / ASCII
Is there command to display the files encoding?
Thank you! (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm using iconv command to change files encoding to UTF-8
If my input file has chars as those are removed creating the file without those special chars.
I tried using iconv -c, but there is still the removal.
Is there a way to keep those special chars changing just the... (6 Replies)
I have a requirement to remove all non-ascii characters from a fixed length file. I used the below command which is removing special characters but somehow the total record length is being truncated to one space less. If it is a multi-byte string then many characters at the end are being truncated.... (8 Replies)