iconv: Converting from Windows ANSI to UTF-8 with BOM
I want to use iconv to convert files on my Mac. The goal is to go from "Windows ANSI" to "whatever Windows Notepad saves, if you tell it to use UFT8". This is what I want: anders-johansen-privats-macbook-pro:test andersprivat$ file names.csv names.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators This is what I use: iconv -f CP1252 -t UTF-8 names.csv > names.utf8.csv This is what I get (not what I want): file names.utf8.csv names.utf8.csv: UTF-8 Unicode text, with CRLF line terminators How do I get the BOM? You can add it manually by first echo ing the bytes into the file: echo