LXer: Using Iconv To Convert Character Sets On Linux And Unix
 

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Iconv makes character set conversion easy. Remembering all of your character sets can still be hard. Today's topic was obliquely referenced in yesterday's post on using the online multilingual dictionary from the Bash CLI. Yes, after I woke up around 1 am and thought about it, the results did seem odd. It turns out, when I went to the page, that the multilingual dictionary on reference.com is actually house within a frameset under the online Thesaurus. My belated apologies for getting the name incorrect, although, if you think about it, it's not even a multilingual dictionary (not really).

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