From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T00:21:11+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII

Charlie Bowman wrote:
> Sorry to just into this thread but I have the exact opposite problem.
> Open Office uses utf8 and I need to be able to copy text from the OO
> document into a web form.  Is this possible without saving the document
> as a plain text file first?
> 
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 00:03 +0900, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 
>> At least on Windows XP the notepad can handle various encodings. The
>> HTH
>> 
>> Michal
> 
> Charlie Bowman
> http://www.recentrambles.com

I assume that you should be able to use Iconv to transform the string. 
There are examples of its usage earlier in this thread.

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