Debian provides the iconv command that allows you to transcode text to and from any character set. Example:

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$ iconv -f utf8 -t iso8859-15 fichier_utf8.txt

This command will transcode from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15. It’s very useful if you’ve developed a web page in UTF-8 and realized it too late.

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Last updated 08 Mar 2007, 08:18 +0200. history