On Thu, 25 Dec 2025, American Citizen wrote:
My locale command shows identical values to yours. They match exactly.
Randall, Were I in the same situation I'd use iconv on each ASCII file. Read `man iconv'. Example: To convert ASCII to UTF-8 in Linux, you can use the iconv command. The syntax is: iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 input_file.txt -o output_file.txt. HTH, Rich
