Convert source files to UTF8

**teHIngo** · April 28th, 2008

Hi everybody!

I am experiencing some problems with text files, such as LaTeX source files. Since I migrated from Windows to Ubuntu, all the files have an encoding that does not correctly work with Kile. It compiles the source files to PDF nevertheless, but gibes me a lot of errors about different characters and it does not really look good to have question marks all over your document! Plus, in the output file, a lot of characters are missing, for instance in this word: "Mrzrevolution (1848)" which should acutally also contain an "Ä".

Long story, short question:
How can I convert files with the Windows encoding to UTF-8?

Thanks

Ingo

**hyper_ch** · April 28th, 2008

have a look at: iconv

But not sure if that works for the files you want to have.

**Hospadar** · April 28th, 2008

Depending on how many files you have (i.e. if you have relatively few) you could probably just open them in kate or gedit and do a "save as"

If you have a lot though, and want to automate it on the command line, iconv is probably the choice.