diff --git a/_gtfobins/iconv.md b/_gtfobins/iconv.md
index 9b83f7a..6bf2586 100644
--- a/_gtfobins/iconv.md
+++ b/_gtfobins/iconv.md
@@ -1,21 +1,20 @@
 ---
+description: The `8859_1` encoding is used as it accepts any single-byte sequence, thus it allows to read/write arbitrary files. Other encoding combinations may corrupt the result.
 functions:
   file-write:
-    - description: Write ASCII data to file.
-      code: |
+    - code: |
         LFILE=file_to_write
-        echo "DATA" | iconv -o "$LFILE"
+        echo "DATA" | iconv -f 8859_1 -t 8859_1 -o "$LFILE"
   file-read:
-    - description: Read data from file as UTF-8.
-      code: |
+    - code: |
         LFILE=file_to_read
-        iconv -f UTF8 "$LFILE"
+        iconv -f 8859_1 -t 8859_1 "$LFILE"
   suid:
     - code: |
         LFILE=file_to_read
-        ./iconv -f UTF8 "$LFILE"
+        ./iconv -f 8859_1 -t 8859_1 "$LFILE"
   sudo:
     - code: |
         LFILE=file_to_read
-        sudo iconv -f UTF8 "$LFILE"
+        ./iconv -f 8859_1 -t 8859_1 "$LFILE"
 ---