From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T10:36:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:27:46AM +0900, Wes Gamble wrote:
> Paul Battley wrote:
> > Windows Notepad does handle UTF-8, but requires the presence of a BOM
> > (the three bytes "\xef\xbb\xbf") at the start of the file to read it
> > properly. Other, more competent applications may allow you to select
> > the appropriate encoding, or may even automatically detect it.
> I don't really care about Notepad.
> 
> I can't get VIM to show this text correctly.

vim handles utf-8 (if your terminal does!), but also wants a BOM.

You might be able to tell it that its utf-8 even without the BOM.

> I want to be able to convert (what I believe to be) UTF-8 into 
> Windows-1252 succesfully.

Doesn't iconv take two args, the input and output character sets?

Sam