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in reply to diacriticals from terminal to file and back on WinXP

humm might be a simple codepage issue. I have a spanish ed. of windows xp. Using a simple iconv wrapper...

% steph@ape (/home/stephan) % % echo ëäöé ëäöé % steph@ape (/home/stephan) % % echo ëäöé | icv Ùõ÷Ú % steph@ape (/home/stephan) % % echo ëäöé | icv -db .loop: entered debug mode! .loop: [] .icv default-mode .iconv -c -f CP850 -t ISO-8859-1 Ùõ÷Ú
cheers hth --stephan