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Check File Encoding with iconv on Debian VPS

Category: Command Line

Use iconv—a conversion tool—on a Debian VPS—run:

file -i /var/www/index.html

convert if needed:

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 file.txt > file_utf8.txt

On Hetzner ensures hosting compatibility—manages encodings with CLI