Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I have to admit that I don't care too deeply about performance for > somebody who wants to convert "latin1" to "ISO-8859-1". If one of your > encodings is not UTF-8, you are probably Doing It Wrong. :) Exactly. Note that the "you" in the above are usually plural, collectively referring to both the sender and the receiver. I usually am on the poor receiving end ;-)