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Noman Maqsood
Asked: 2019-11-20 02:17:01 +0800 CST

Convert string to UTF-8 with terminal only

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

encoding utf-8

1 Answers

  1. 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

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