From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-09-19T02:12:25+09:00
Subject: Re: How to clean an xml files from non-utf-8 chars?

On Sep 18, 9:25 am, Krzysieq <krzys...@gazeta.pl> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> Unfortunately, there's no way telling the original encoding. I would rather
> go for some method of removing / substituting the chars that don't belong
> there, but the method first suggested by Brian doesn't seem to work for some
> reason. Does anyone have another option?

Try the iconv solutions with latin-1 (iso-8859-1) as the From. That's
as close as you can get to a one-byte "anything-goes" encoding.

-Mark.