On 27/03/20, Andrew Gierth (andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk) wrote:
> >>>>> "Rory" == Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> writes:
>
> Rory> Or:
>
> Rory> iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 -c < tempfile2 > tempfile3
>
> No. That's just a conversion of win1252 to utf8 without regard for any
> UTF8 that might already be present in the input. Any such input will end
> up double-encoded, requiring further work to fix.
My apologies. I missed the subtlety of the substitution in your perl code.