Alternative to iconv

[Walter Barnes]

Hi all,

I have a large csv file (1.5GB) that I need to convert from UTF-16 to
UTF-8 however it appears iconv is not currently included in cygwin. Due
to the large size of the file I would rather not open it in an editor.
Is there an alternative command line tool I can use?

Thanks!
Walter

[Eric Blake]

Post by Walter Barnes
Hi all,
I have a large csv file (1.5GB) that I need to convert from UTF-16 to
UTF-8 however it appears iconv is not currently included in cygwin.

Huh? iconv is too part of cygwin:

$ cygcheck -p iconv\\.exe
Found 3 matches for iconv\.exe
libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1-1 GNU character set conversion library and
utilities
libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1-2 GNU character set conversion library and
utilities
libiconv/libiconv-1.14-1 GNU character set conversion library and utilities

Maybe you just need to rerun setup.exe and install the libiconv package,
if you don't already have it present on your machine.

[Walter Barnes]

Thanks Eric, I had previously ran the setup utility and searched for
iconv and found only the libraries (libiconv and libiconv2). Also,
libiconv2 was pre-installed but I was still getting "command not found"
when I attempted to run iconv. I went ahead and installed the libiconv
package in addition to libiconv2 and it works now... maybe a note in the
package description that libiconv2 does not include the executable?

Thanks again,
Walter

Post by Eric Blake

Post by Walter Barnes
Hi all,
I have a large csv file (1.5GB) that I need to convert from UTF-16 to
UTF-8 however it appears iconv is not currently included in cygwin.

$ cygcheck -p iconv\\.exe
Found 3 matches for iconv\.exe
libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1-1 GNU character set conversion library and
utilities
libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1-2 GNU character set conversion library and
utilities
libiconv/libiconv-1.14-1 GNU character set conversion library and
utilities
Maybe you just need to rerun setup.exe and install the libiconv
package, if you don't already have it present on your machine.