iconv: Convert from CP1252 to UTF-8
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Solution
When you convert CP1252 encoded string `Çàïèñêè ýêñïåäèòîðà` to UTF-8 with command `iconv.exe -f CP1252 -t UTF-8 test.txt >testout.txt` then the source file `test.txt` (Hex view:
) will be converted into target file `testout.txt` (Hex view:
) which is UTF-8 code for `Çàïèñêè ýêñïåäèòîðà`.
Same garbage you put in will come the other end out. iconv's behavior is correct and as expected.
What you are perplexed by is that you don't see what you expect and that is because your input 8bit string is actually encoded in Windows-1251 (Cyrillic) Codepage.
→ So the correct code page is not CP1252 but CP1251 ←
Command `iconv.exe -f CP1251 -t UTF-8 test.txt >testout2.txt` converts the source file `test.txt` into target file `testout2.txt` (Hex view:
) which is UTF-8 code for `Записки экспедитора` which is what your user's expect to see
Problem
I'm trying to convert the CP1252 encoded string Çàïèñêè ýêñïåäèòîðà to UTF-8. I have tried this command: ``` iconv -c -f=WINDOWS-1252 -t=UTF-8 test.txt ``` No luck, getting some weird results: ÊÀÇÀÃÃœ ÃÎÂÛÉ ÂÅÊ I tried entering the same string (Çàïèñêè ýêñïåäèòîðà) here, and they are able to convert it without problems: http://www.artlebedev.ru/tools/decoder/ What is going wrong?