OK, I wasn't after solving the problem, but suggesting a possible
workaround for the moment. I'm using RedHat/Fedora with UTF-8 encoding
in an environment where a lot of files are encoded with any of the
ISO-8859-x encodings. I've had a lot of annoyance out of this, and just
concluded that sometimes is easier to have the files concerted to the
right encoding...
Cheers,
Csaba.
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> These are applications, so they aren't terribly useful in the case at
> hand. We need a programmatic means of doing this conversion.
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