Character encoding translation

[Todd Zullinger]

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Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 10:20 -0400, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to translate UTF-8 documents into a Latin
>> enconding. ISO-8859-1 for instance.  Is there a utility, script,
>> command in Linux that can do this?
> 
> iconv -f utf-8 -t ISO-8859-1 infile > outfile

And in some cases that may fail, you can add //TRANSLIT to have iconv
try to transliterate any characters from utf to latin (things like
curly quotes come to mind).

The syntax would be:

iconv -f utf-8 -t ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT infile > outfile

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Going to hell when I die would just be redundant.

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