Converts all subtitles files of a folder from ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8

conv_to_utf8

#!/bin/bash
for file in ./*.srt
do
	encoding=`file --mime-encoding "$file" | awk '{ print $2 }'`
	if [ $encoding = "iso-8859-1" ]
	then
		iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < "$file" > "$file.utf8"
		mv "$file.utf8" "$file"
		echo "$file converted to UTF-8"
	else
		echo "$file is not ISO-8859-1 encoded"
	fi
done