Subj : it is what it is
To   : Nick Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Feb 01 2025 04:53:33

Hey Nick!

> It seems iconv most likely doesn't know what to do with it,
> because it's showing here as UTF-8.

Strange.  As is 'file' shows it as 'ISO-8859 text' which I know is wrong.  Forcing it using 'iconv -f koi8-r' shows it as 'Unicode text, UTF-8 text' and the line in question becomes; Сильный, как бык, умный, как трактор.  Definetly more evidence in favour of setting all output to utf-8 given all the 8-bit character confusion and corruption.  I believe I said that at the start of this particular thread.

Life is good,
Maurice

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