How can I convert Cyrillic stored as LATIN1 ( sql ) to true UTF8 Cyrillic with iconv?

I have a SQL dump file consisting of incorrectly stored Cyrillic Russian ( WINDOWS-1251 ) text, example `Èðàíñêèå` which should properly be displayed as `Иранские`. In the past I have successfully converted the sql file but memory fails in what I did and in what order. Logically it would make sense that since it's stored in LATIN1 I would convert from LATIN1 to WINDOWS-1251 and then from WINDOWS-1251 to UTF-8//TRANSLIT or something like that. So far I've tried: 1. ``` iconv -f WINDOWS-1251 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT -o new.sql snippet.sql ``` Output: `Èðà íñêèå` ( Not what I want ) 2. ``` iconv -f LATIN1 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT -o new.sql snippet.sql ``` Output: `Ã<88>ðà íñêèå` ( Not what I want either ) Notes It's possible that I might have converted once and then twice to get my desired result, but I'm pretty sure that on the last step I converted from `WINDOWS-1251` to `UTF-8//TRANSLIT` as that was written down in my notes. One other note is that I'm viewing `Èðàíñêèå` in the SQL file when the file encoding is utf8 ( native in vim ). If I do `set enc=latin1` in vim then I see `~Hð| íñêèå` as if that doesn't make it more confusing.