Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] iconv encoding problem

[Philippe M. <ph...@oz...>]

I'm running 1.6.8 and I have a much longer list of character sets
available. It may have been a bug in your particular version.

Philippe

On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:27:47PM +0200, Ma poubelle wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> I know the iso-8859 is not a valid coding but this is the output of file
> command.
> 
> this is the output i have when i try to convert my file
> 
> devil:~/tmp# iconv -l
> The following list contain all the coded character sets known.  This does
> not necessarily mean that all combinations of these names can be used for
> the FROM and TO command line parameters.  One coded character set can be
> listed with several different names (aliases).
> 
>   10646-1:1993, 10646-1:1993/UCS4, ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986,
> ANSI_X3.4,
>   ASCII, CP367, CSASCII, CSUCS4, IBM367, ISO-10646, ISO-10646/UCS2,
>   ISO-10646/UCS4, ISO-10646/UTF-8, ISO-10646/UTF8, ISO-IR-6, ISO-IR-193,
>   ISO646-US, ISO_646.IRV:1991, OSF00010020, OSF00010100, OSF00010101,
>   OSF00010102, OSF00010104, OSF00010105, OSF00010106, OSF05010001, UCS-2,
>   UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE, UCS2, UCS4, UNICODEBIG,
>   UNICODELITTLE, US-ASCII, US, UTF-8, UTF8, WCHAR_T
> devil:~/tmp# file source.CSV
> source.CSV: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
> devil:~/tmp# iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 source.CSV > dest.CSV
> iconv: conversion from `iso-8859-1' is not supported
> Try `iconv --help' or `iconv --usage' for more information.
> devil:~/tmp# iconv -t utf-8 source.CSV > dest.CSV
> iconv: illegal input sequence at position 185
> devil:~/tmp# more /etc/Devil-release
> Devil-Linux 1.4-i686
> 
> I see that I try on old release of DL, I will try on a more recent release
> and I came back
> 
> Regards
> 
> Christian
> 
> 2016-04-07 6:23 GMT+02:00 Philippe Marzouk <ph...@oz...>:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 03:29:16PM +0200, Ma poubelle wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I try to convert a ISO-8859 text file to UTF-8 Unicode text using DL. My
> > > problem is the ISO-8859 encoding is not present when I run iconv -l and
> > the
> > > conversion fail.
> > >
> > > Do you have an idea how to add encoding for this tool ?
> > >
> >
> > There is no iso-8859 coding, there is iso-8859-x where x is a number
> > with 1 for latin characters, 5 for cyrillic, 6 for arabic, 15 for latin
> > with euro, etc.
> >
> > Can you share the exact command you are using?
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
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