the problem I reported is fixed in the current upstream version 1.10 Bug 46788 reports the same problem differently
-- -t UTF8 and -t UTF-8, resp., show different and unexpected behaviour wrt. conversion and autodetection https://launchpad.net/bugs/60238 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
