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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:40:44 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: file conversion utility sought: from isolatin (8859-1) to utf8
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Ralf Hauser wrote:

> Are there any tools like d2u or u2d for UTF-8 for cygwin?
> 
> In http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2004-Jun/0002.html, Bjoern talks about
> the "recode" and "iconv" utilities, but these don't appear to exist in
> cygwin.

Cygwin has a libiconv package, which you must have overlooked.

$ iconv --help
Usage: iconv [-c] [-s] [-f fromcode] [-t tocode] [file ...]
or:    iconv -l

$ which iconv
/usr/bin/iconv

$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/iconv
libiconv-1.9.2-1

Brian

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