UTF-8 characters are not printed correctly on the console

Question

I've seen some questions similar to this one but I'm not being able to use the solutions of those to help me. So, what is my problem?, I have a file with the characters ç, ã, à, etc... but they don't print on the terminal when I use either awk, cat, grep, etc... The terminal and my font can and do support these characters.

My locale is set to en_GB.UTF-8 and the output of the command locale is:

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

Answer 1

I found a solution! I simply had to convert the files to UTF-8, they where in ISO-8859.

To see the file's current encoding: file <path-to-file> Then, to convert said file to UTF-8: iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF-8 >> <path-to-converted-file>

This should fix the 'problem';