Processing the conversion from GB2312 to UTF-8 in Linux

Article Title: Linux system to handle the conversion from GB2312 to UTF-8. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Including desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems and open-source and other basic classification UTF-8 this encoding has been the trend of the times, but there are many Chinese documents retain the old GB2312 encoding, as long as you have to deal with Windows, you have to deal with GB2312, such as the 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 GB2312 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 GB2312. 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