Why iconv cannot convert from utf-8 to iso-8859-1
My system is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
I'm trying to convert a data from utf-8 format to iso useing "iconv"
$>file test.utf8
test.utf8: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines
$>
$>file -i test.utf8
test.utf8: text/plain charset=utf-8
$>
$>iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 test.utf8 > test.iso
iconv: test.utf8:20:105: cannot convert
Could you help me wit this? Thanks.
Answer
Your input file contains characters that don't exist in Latin 1. You can use the -c option to skip them:
iconv -c -futf8 -tl1 test.utf8 > test.iso