iconv.man.txt – allows (file?) conversion between charsets / encodings

all available encodings: iconv_debian8_convertable_charsets.txt

example:

iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-15 file.input -o file.output

file file.output
file.output ASCII text

iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 file.input -o file.output
file.output: ASCII text

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