Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2) fortune(6) checks locale[1] and converts output into this locale's > charset. > 3) If there are undisplayable characters, fortune(6) either exits with > an error message, or uses TRANSLIT iconv extension (it does not work > properly anyway, but hopefully it will in some time)
See http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-10/msg00067.html about how to do this with the iconv command.