iconv: Converting from Windows ANSI to UTF-8 with BOM
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Solution 1
You can add it manually by first echo
ing the bytes into the file:
echo -ne '\xEF\xBB\xBF' > names.utf8.csv
and then concatenating your required information at the end:
iconv -f CP1252 -t UTF-8 names.csv >> names.utf8.csv
Note the >>
rather than >
.
Solution 2
Note that "Windows ANSI" may not be CP1252 - that is configured by users.
Author by
user531912
Updated on February 10, 2020Comments
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user531912 about 4 years
I want to use
iconv
to convert files on my Mac. The goal is to go from "Windows ANSI" to "whatever Windows Notepad saves, if you tell it to use UFT8".This is what I want:
$ file names.csv names.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
This is what I use:
$ iconv -f CP1252 -t UTF-8 names.csv > names.utf8.csv
This is what I get (not what I want):
$ file names.utf8.csv names.utf8.csv: UTF-8 Unicode text, with CRLF line terminators
How do I get the BOM?
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nwellnhof about 9 yearsThe question asked specifically about the BOM, so I don't think your answer is helpful.
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Fuhrmanator over 6 yearsAny idea why iconv from GnuWin is creating a UCS2 LE BOM encoded file (according to Notepad++ anyway) when I use
-t UTF-8
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Fuhrmanator over 6 years