title: Using iconv to convert from UTF-16LE to UTF-8
body: <p>Hi I am trying to convert some log files from a Microsoft SQL server, but the files are encoded using UTf-16LE and iconv does not seem to be able to convert them. </p>
  
  <p>I am doing: </p>
  
  <pre><code>iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 &lt;filename&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried to delete any carriage returns from the end of the line if there are any, but that did not fix it either. If I save it using gedit that works, but this is not a viable solution since I have hundreds of those files. </p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: Please see the new answer for the missing option</p>