Conver from iso88591 to Unicode: iconv

[jose_luis_fdez_diaz]

It is possible to convert from iso88591 to Unicode with "iconv" ?

[Wim Rombauts]

Yes. unicode (utf8) has all codepoints that are available in iso88591

[jose_luis_fdez_diaz]

Thanks for your help.

Is there a utf16?

Regards,
Jose Luis.

[Dennis Handly]

See my reply in this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1166661

For you:
$ grep iso88591 /usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv
# alias iso81 iso8859_1 iso88591
alias iso81 iso8859_1 iso88591 ISO8859-1 ASCII 646
$ grep ^iso81 /usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv
And you see:
iso81 utf8 iso81=ucs2 lsbutf8.sl

>Is there a utf16?

Is this like ucs2?