Re: UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1 tool

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

On 2006-05-04, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:

> What editor can change UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1?
> Running Debian Sarge. Oo doesn't seem to. MC doesn't know what's what.
> Who?

  $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 foo.html >foo.latin1.html

You could do the conversion with emacs, but the above method is more
suitable for batch processing.  I think this would cut out a step for
printing:

  $ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 foo.html |a2ps


> Rationale: I change html pages to text to print with a2ps. But then all 
> accents show up as "garbage" utf-8 sequences. It seems to "know" ISO 8859-1.

What locale are you running?  I think you could try the following:

  $ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8   a2ps foo.html

or

  $ export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
  $ a2ps foo.html
  $ a2ps bar.html


Please post what works or doesn't work!

HTH,
Adam