Convert error Japanese text

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

An error occurs when converting Japanese text from UTF-8 to SHIFT-JIS and from SHIFT-JIS to UTF-8.

$ iconv -f UTF-8 -t SHIFT_JIS testfile.txt
...
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 32

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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