Converting UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 | LinuC Level 1 102 Exam original practice question

1.08.3Basic

Convert input.txt from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 and write output.txt.

All input characters are representable in the target encoding.

Which command is appropriate?

Hint 1: Focus on locale scope

Identify which locale category controls the displayed language, numeric format, or date and time format.

Hint 2: Key terms

Review the short definitions of locale categories, character encoding, and timezone settings involved.

-f: The iconv option that specifies the input encoding.
-t: The iconv option that specifies the output encoding.
UTF-8: A Unicode encoding that uses one to four bytes per code point.
ISO-8859-1: A single-byte encoding primarily covering Western European characters.

Detailed explanation

Correcticonv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 input.txt > output.txt

Correct. It converts from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.

Incorrecticonv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 input.txt > output.txt

Incorrect. It reverses the source and target encodings.

Incorrecticonv -t UTF-8 -f UTF-8 input.txt > output.txt

Incorrect. Both sides are UTF-8, so it does not convert to ISO-8859-1.

Incorrectlocale -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 input.txt

Incorrect. locale does not convert file contents.

An example you can run in a temporary verification environment.

printf 'Cafe
' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 | od -An -tx1

43 61 66 65 0a

Foundation review

A setting that controls language, numeric formatting, collation, or date display.

A mapping between characters and the bytes used to represent them.

A rule set that converts timestamps for a region or display context.

Question IDKL-102-1063

EnvironmentGNU libiconvまたはglibc iconv / ASCII範囲の標準入力のみ

Last technical review2026-08-13

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