convert files from iso-8859-1 to utf8

convert-8859-utf8.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Timothée Moulin
#
# Install : copy this script anywhere (you can place it in the (/usr/local/bin) directory
# and give it the execution permission : chmod +x convert-8859-utf8.sh
#
# You can use this script either by calling it directly to convert a single file
# or you can give it to the "find -exec" command to convert a batch of files.
# e.g. 
# find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec convert-8859-utf8.sh {} \;
# convert-8859-utf8.sh your-wrongly-encoded-file.txt

# detect source encoding
encoding=`file -i $1 | cut -f 2 -d";" | cut -f 2 -d=`

# convert only iso-5589-1 (and unkown)
case $encoding in
    iso-8859-1)
    iconv -c -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 $1 -o $1.utf8
    # we create a temporary file to avoid Bus error
    mv $1.utf8 $1
    ;;
    unknown-8bit)
    iconv -c -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 $1 -o $1.utf8
    mv $1.utf8 $1
    ;;
esac