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Asked: 2026-05-11T07:34:58+00:00

I have a bunch of files with a mixtures of encodings mainly ISO-8859-1 and

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I have a bunch of files with a mixtures of encodings mainly ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.

I would like to make all files UTF-8, but when trying to batch encode this files using iconv some problems arise. (Files cuts by half, etc.)

I supposse the reason is that iconv requires to know the ‘from’ encoding, so if the command looks like this

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 in.php -o out.php

but ‘in.php’ if already UTF-8 encoded, that causes problems (correct me if I’m wrong)

Is there a way, that I can list all the files whose encoding is not UTF-8?

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  1. You can’t find files that are definitely ISO-8859-1, but you can find files that are valid UTF-8 (which unlike most multibyte encodings give you a reasonable assurance that they are in fact UTF-8). moreutils has a tool isutf8 which can do this for you. Or you can write your own, it would be fairly simple.

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