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Ivri
Ivri

Reputation: 2219

Converting from UTF8 to ISO 8859-5, getting ISO 8859-1 instead

I need to convert a file to 8-bit(Cyrillic/8859-5), so I'm doing 

iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=ISO-8859-5 file.UTF8 -o file.ISO

It works and finally when I check the encoding I get

file -bi file.ISO
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Why ISO-8859-1?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1418

Answers (1)

Phil
Phil

Reputation: 2293

The command file only makes guesses at a files encoding. It probably would be hard to determine ISO 8859-5 over ISO 8859-1 without looking the words up in a dictionary database because they are both similar 8 bit formats.

As long as you know the file is really ISO 8859-5, that's what matters.

Note: I have just learnt that (confusingly) ISO 8859-9 is aparently informally referred to as "Latin-5", so I have removed references to that confusing name.

Upvotes: 2

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