Converting latin1 (iso-8859-1) to utf8 (the file content itself)

Renaud (Ron) Olgiati renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org
Fri Nov 17 12:51:42 UTC 2006


On Friday 17 November 2006 08:06, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from rodrigochinaski <rodrigo.chinaski at gmail.com> who wrote:

> Now I need to tool to convert latin1 content of some text files
> (basically m3u playlists and checksum.md5 files) to utf8 inline. I
> couldn't do with iconv, it needs an output file and I wish it just
> worked as convmv, where the input file is the same output.

If you only have to do a few text files, open them with kwrite, 

Save As give you the option to choose another character set for saving..
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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