from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64860/best-way-to-convert-text-files-between-character-sets


On Linux/UNIX/OS X/cygwin:

    Gnu iconv <http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv.1.html> suggested by Troels Arvin 
    <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64860/best-way-to-convert-text-files-between-character-sets#64889>
    is best used as a filter. It seems to be universally available. Example:

    $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-15 in.txt > out.txt

    As pointed out by Ben <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64860/best-way-to-convert-text-files-between-character-sets#64991>, 
    there is an online converter using iconv. <http://www.iconv.com/iconv.htm>