On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 01:24:29PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > 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.
This is actually a do-nothing command. UTF-8 is a strict coding superset of US-ASCII and all ASCII files are also 100% valid UTF-8. This will just output the same file it was given for input. This is more for things like changing legacy Latin-1 files to UTF-8 as Latin-1 encodes non-ASCII characters differently than UTF-8 does, but the common ASCII subset of both Latin-1 and UTF-8 have 100% identical byte encoding. > > HTH, > > Rich -- Loren M. Lang [email protected] http://www.north-winds.org/ IRC: penguin359 Public Key: http://www.north-winds.org/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 7896 E099 9FC7 9F6C E0ED E103 222D F356 A57A 98FA
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