iconv(1) General Commands Manual iconv(1) (NAME) iconv - (SYNOPSIS) iconv [options] [-f from-encoding] [-t to-encoding] [inputfile ...] (DESCRIPTION) iconv . (-) iconv . iconv . from-encoding . to-encoding . (OPTIONS) --from-code=from-encoding -f from-encoding from-encoding . --to-code=to-encoding -t to-encoding to-encoding . //IGNORE to-encoding . ( .) //TRANSLIT to-encoding . . (?) . --list -l . -c . POSIX . --output=outputfile -o outputfile outputfile . --silent -s . --verbose . --help -? . --usage . --version -V iconv. (EXIT STATUS) . (ENVIRONMENT) iconv iconv(3) gconv ( ) . iconv(3) iconv iconv_open(3) . GCONV_PATH : o GCONV_PATH iconv_open(3) gconv iconvconfig(8) gconv . gconv gconv . o GCONV_PATH ( ) gconv . iconv_open(3) GCONV_PATH gconv . gconv gconv . gconv GCONV_PATH . GCONV_PATH . (FILES) /usr/lib/gconv gconv. /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules gconv. /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache gconv. /usr/lib64 . (STANDARDS) POSIX.1-2008. (HISTORY) POSIX.1-2001. (EXAMPLES) ISO/IEC 8859-15 UTF-8: $ iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF-8 < input.txt > output.txt; UTF-8 ASCII : $ echo abc ss EUR ac | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT; abc ss ? EUR abc (SEE ALSO) locale(1), uconv(1), iconv(3), nl_langinfo(3), charsets(7), iconvconfig(8) Linux man-pages 6.19 2025-09-21 iconv(1)