Convert string to UTF-8 with terminal only

Question

How I can convert a string to UTF-8 encoding using Ubuntu terminal only?

Solution

iconv should do what you are looking for

eg.:

echo 'latin string' | iconv -t utf-8 > yourfileInUTF8

Edit: As suggested by damadam I removed the -f option since the string typed in terminal uses the default encoding

-f, --from-code=NAME encoding of original text

Comments

[Melebius]

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! From what encoding are you trying to convert?

[Noman Maqsood]

Thank you but I found many examples on file, not for some string that's why I opened this question

[lese]

ah ok updated, you can try but I honestly don't know if a simple string can contain the encoding information

[damadam]

you can remove the -f option if OP wants to type the string from terminal, it takes the default encoding; also, I think it's better to use double quote " for the echo command

[Melebius]

@damadam Whether ' or " should be used depends on the particular case. ' doesn’t allow any expansion and is perfectly valid here.

[lese]

@damadam: Thank you for your feedback | Melebius: Ok I understand