How to convert interrogation mark character in accented letters I have a file containing accented letters * with `cat`, I get interrogation marks voltmtre * with `less`, I get accented letters ...--prophetes.ai

How to convert interrogation mark character in accented letters I have a file containing accented letters * with `cat`, I get interrogation marks voltmtre * with `less`, I get accented letters with brackets voltm<E8>tre * with `vim`, I get the accented letter being displayed properly voltmètre How can I modify my file so that accent are displayed properly with `cat`.

From this question, this might work:

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 infile.txt > outfile.txt