Converting from GB2132 to UTF-8 in Linux

Linux to process the conversion from GB2132 to UTF-8-Linux general technology-Linux technology and application information, the following is a detailed reading. Original Author: peigen

UTF-8 this encoding has been the trend of the times, but there are a lot of Chinese documents retain the old GB2132 encoding, and as long as you have to deal with Windows, it is inevitable to deal with the problem of GB2132, for example, you can process source code, text files, and letter files copied from Windows.

Most of us know the encoding conversion method, but I just forget it.

The iconv command in Linux can be used to convert character encoding. The basic command format is as follows:

Iconv-f original encoding-t destination encoding File Name> New File Name
-F indicates from, and-t indicates.

If I want to convert text.txt from GB2132 encoding to a UTF-8 and save it as a text-utf-8.txt, the command is as follows:

Iconv-f gb2312-t UTF-8 text.txt> text-utf-8.txt

However, sometimes an error is reported during conversion, probably because some characters in the original file exceed the range of GB2132. At this time, we can change GB2312 to its superset GB18030, generally, the problem is solved:

Iconv-f gb18030-t UTF-8 text.txt> text-utf-8.txt