How to change encoding of a file?

Another chapter of the book “Encoding is hell” ;) Today I noticed that some files in one of our projects suddenly have been converted to UTF-8 where they should have been in ISO-8859-1. Ok, short question: How to convert it back?

Short Answer
Use iconv like this:

iconv –from-code=UTF-8 –to-code=ISO-8859-1 inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt

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