Converting ANSI to UTF-8 in shell
bash, csv, iconv, shell, utf-8
Solution
Put the output into another file. Don't overwrite the old one.
iconv -f "windows-1252" -t "UTF-8" import.csv -o new_import.csv
`iconv` fails when reading and writing to the same file.
Problem
I'm making a parser (1 csv to 3 csv) script and I have a problem. I am French so in my language I have letters like: `é è à ....` A customer sent me a csv file that Linux recognizes as "unknown-8bit" (ansi I guess). In my script, I'm writing 3 new csv files. But ViM creates them as ISO latin1 because it's close to what it got in the entry, but my `é,è,à...` are broken. I need UTF-8. So I tried to convert the first ANSI csv to UTF-8 : ``` iconv -f "windows-1252" -t "UTF-8" import.csv -o import.csv ``` The problem is that it breaks my CSV. It's now on only one row. But my special chars are ok. Is there a way to convert ANSI to UTF-8 and keeping my rows?