subfix.sh

#!/bin/bash

# If encoding is not detected assumes Latin 1 (line 22)
# Here are some alternative encodings:
# 1250 - Latin 2 / Central European
# 1251 - Cyrillic
# 1252 - Latin 1 / Western European
# 1253 - Greek
# 1254 - Turkish
# 1255 - Hebrew
# 1256 - Arabic
# 1257 - Baltic
# 1258 - Vietnamese (also OEM)

fullPATH=$1
echo $fullPATH >/tmp/subtitleFIX.log
encode=`file -ib $fullPATH|cut -d= -f 2`
echo "encode is : "$encode >>/tmp/subtitleFIX.log


if [ "$encode" == 'unknown-8bit' ];then
    encode="WINDOWS-1252"
elif [ "$encode" == "utf-8" ];then
    notify-send Fixed!"
    exit
fi
fromFILE=$fullPATH
fromFILEwithNOextention=`echo $fromFILE|cut -d. -f -1`
backupFILE=`echo $fromFILEwithNOextention".bak.srt"`
mv  $fromFILE $backupFILE
iconv $backupFILE -f $encode -t UTF-8 > $fromFILE