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Convert a (txt|srt) document from Western(ISO-8859-15) to UTF-8

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I am having problems with subtitles in my language. They are encoded as Western(ISO-8859-15) and therefore some characters are not displayed correctly. I am tired of replacing manually using gedit and ctrl-h and then saving as UTF-8. How to automate this process?

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answered 3 Years ago dileble · Accepted Answer

You can use iconv:

If the file is named chapter1.srt, then run:

iconv -f iso88591 -t utf8 chapter1.srt > outputfile.srt

and it will create the file, although it'll have a different name. If you move them out into another directory, then you can easily pipe them back in.