* Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-07-03
> I just did
> 
>     tail /usr/share/dict/words
> 
> in Debian Etch, but I got some unreadable characters. The problem is not
> with my terminal (xfce4-terminal) as it handles even Tamil script. The file
> is probably encoded in ISO-8859-1. So how do I cat it? I don't want to
> change my locale, which is:
> 
>     export LANG='en_IN.UTF-8'

Let me ask a simple question: How to convert a file from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
on the command line? Is there some command like:

    transcode --input-encoding ISO-8859-1 --output-encoding UTF-8 < 
/usr/share/dict/words > dict.utf8

-- 
Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>


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