> What editor can change UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1?
> Running Debian Sarge. Oo doesn't seem to. MC doesn't know what's what.
> Who?

$ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 foo.html >foo.latin1.html

You could do the conversion with emacs, but the above method is more suitable for batch processing. I think this would cut out a step for printing:

$ iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 foo.html |a2ps

> Rationale: I change html pages to text to print with a2ps. But then all
> accents show up as "garbage" utf-8 sequences. It seems to "know" ISO 8859-1.

What locale are you running? I think you could try the following:

$ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8   a2ps foo.html

or

$ export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
$ a2ps foo.html
$ a2ps bar.html

Please post what works or doesn't work!

Adam Funk

> Please post what works or doesn't work!

Thanks Adam!

iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-15 chikung.txt > chikung.converted.txt

does the ticket.

I don't print html pages with a2ps because it uses too much ink + paper:

iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-15 chikung.txt | a2ps --medium=Letterdj -o chikung.ps

does the job in one step. I'll make that an mc immediate command…

Hugo Vanwoerkom