如何将ISO-8859-8-i转换为UTF-8？

Question

I received an email which uses the charset iso-8859-8-i . iconv says that it is an unsupported charset. I tried using iso-8859-8 but that gives an error with "Invalid multibyte sequence." Any idea how to convert this string to UTF-8?

Answer 1

Just replace the encoding name with "iso-8859-8" . The -i suffix is to indicate that it's in logical order, not the backwards "visual order" that "iso-8859-8" traditionally meant. There's no way iconv can process "visual order" specially anyway, so it should convert it just fine.

As for "invalid multibyte sequence", perhaps you got the source/dest charset argument order backwards? If that's not the problem, then your file probably contains bytes which are not defined in the ISO-8859-8 charset, ie it's invalid...