diff --git a/dhl.sh b/dhl.sh
index ab5d724..d808c8e 100755
--- a/dhl.sh
+++ b/dhl.sh
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ testiso3 () {
 	testcmp "IND" "iso3countrycode" "Indien" "India" "Inde" "Bharat"
 	testcmp "CHN" "iso3countrycode" "China" "China" "Chine" "中国" "Zhōngguó"
 	testcmp "JPN" "iso3countrycode" "Japan" "Japan" "Japon" "Nippon" "Nihon"
-
 	testcmp "" "iso3countrycode" "Simbabwe" # should fail
 }
 
@@ -236,8 +235,8 @@ convcsv () {
 	if test $# -eq 0 ; then >&2 echo "argument missing."; exit 1; fi
 # doc for headless conversion options https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Spreadsheets/Filter_Options
 	if="${1}"
-	format=$(file ${if}|cut -d':' -f2-|cut -d' ' -f2)
-	if test "$format" != "UTF-8" ; then >&2 echo "source file encoding not matching the expected UTF-8."; fi
+	format=$(file ${if}|rev|cut -d':' -f1|rev|cut -d' ' -f2)
+	if test "$format" != "UTF-8" ; then >&2 echo "source file encoding not matching 'UTF-8' as expected."; fi
 	of=$(echo "${if}"|rev|cut -d. -f2-|rev)".ods"
 	if test -e $of ; then >&2 echo "output file already exists."; exit 2; fi 
 	#~ iconv -o "$of" -f $format -t cp1252//TRANSLIT "$if"