On 27/03/20, Andrew Gierth (andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >>>>> "Rory" == Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Rory> Or: > > Rory> iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 -c < tempfile2 > tempfile3 > > No. That's just a conversion of win1252 to utf8 without regard for any > UTF8 that might already be present in the input. Any such input will end > up double-encoded, requiring further work to fix. My apologies. I missed the subtlety of the substitution in your perl code.