Hi, Leon Merten Lohse wrote: > I would > strongly advise against assuming an encoding other than ISO-8859-1.
Yeah. The incomplete circumflex kills the idea of using CP1252 as most tolerant fictional source set. > How about introducing a second step that, in case inconv ISO-8559-1->UTF-8 > fails, simply ignores the illegal characters? One would have to convert in single-character steps. (I am still riddlung which character set might have been meant by the preparer of Serge's "Bulle et Bob" CD.) Have a nice day :) Thomas