Hi.

On Mon 2009-01-26 10:28, Julien Danjou <[email protected]> proclaimed:
> At 1232961883 time_t, Frank Blendinger wrote:
> > I know this is not really the topic of this list anymore, but does
> > anyone can give me a hint how I could fix those bad UTF-8 chars?
> > 
> > I thought about using recode, but since my text is already UTF-8
> > (besides the invalid chars), and the output has to be UTF-8, too, I
> > could only do ``recode UTF-8..UTF-8'', which does not help.
> 
> Try iconv instead?

Awesome idea. :-)

The trick is to _not_ specify an input encoding (no -f), so using just
``... | iconv -t UTF-8'' works great.

Now I can enjoy even those Russian spam mails in a naughty wibox. ;-)


Greetings,
Frank

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