Converting ANSI to UTF-8 in shell

Question

I\'m making a parser (1 csv to 3 csv) script and I have a problem. I am French so in my language I have letters like: é è à ....

A customer sent me a csv fi

Answer 1

Put the output into another file. Don't overwrite the old one.

iconv -f "windows-1252" -t "UTF-8" import.csv -o new_import.csv

iconv fails when reading and writing to the same file.