• I noticed mine having similar issue but was not able to find what type of encoding it was.

• Notepad++ tells in my case that it was ANSI so the above command dint help me.

• Now there are many types of ANSI so the best way to check that was to type

iconv -l

• This lists all the encoding format names. So in my case I narrowed that to:

*iconv -l|grep -i ansi
ANSI_X3.4-1968//
ANSI_X3.4-1986//
ANSI_X3.4//
ANSI_X3.110-1983//
ANSI_X3.110//
MS-ANSI//*

• Since I dint know the specific ANSI I tried almost all of them until I found it was MS-ANSI - I should have known, since I received the file from a Microsoft system. So then I converted using this command:

iconv -f MS-ANSI -t utf-8 sample.csv > sampleUTF8.csv

• I noticed mine having similar issue but was not able to find what type of encoding it was.

• Notepad++ tells in my case that it was ANSI so the above command dint help me.

• Now there are many types of ANSI so the best way to check that was to type

iconv -l

• This lists all the encoding format names. So in my case I narrowed that to:

*iconv -l|grep -i ansi
ANSI_X3.4-1968//
ANSI_X3.4-1986//
ANSI_X3.4//
ANSI_X3.110-1983//
ANSI_X3.110//
MS-ANSI//*

• Since I dint know the specific ANSI I tried almost all of them until I found it was MS-ANSI - I should have known, since I received the file from a Microsoft system. So then I converted using this command:

iconv -f MS-ANSI -t utf-8 sample.csv > sampleUTF8.csv

• So in the same way list out the UNICODE types in iconv -l and reverse the order to get the ANSI type you desire and would be simple.