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Re: European chars to ascii



On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:29:58AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2005-08-20 00:36:14 +0200, Almut Behrens wrote:
> > P.S. Normally, you'd use iconv for encoding conversions.  However,
> > "iconv -f 8859_1 -t ASCII isolatin1-file" doesn't work, because ASCII
> > can only represent a subset of characters present in 8859_1 -- which
> > makes iconv complain...
> 
> recode is better, using the -f option:

That's very cool, thanks!

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