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14th June 2022

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TIL Using iconv to convert the text encoding of a file — In [sqlite-utils issue 439](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/439) I was testing against a CSV file that used UTF16 little endian encoding, also known as `utf-16-le`.

Posted 14th June 2022 at 10:42 pm

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