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[SOLVED] iconv: illegal input sequence at position

Error added: 2006-11-11T23:20:09Z

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try to use with //translit switch.
Sample:
iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT yourfile.txt -o your_new_file.txt

first type \"file -i your filename\" to find the charset used (as xxx).
second type \"iconv -f xxx -t utf8 > aim filename\"
Bingle!That\'s it!

iconv illegal input sequence

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