Batch convert Irssi logs or other text files to UTF-8 using recode
February 8th, 2009 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, link tips, linux/unix, notes, politics, software, technology
When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include converting often used text files, such as chat logs from the older, more compatible but limited ISO 8859-15 charset.
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