[clug] A plain text file that isn't, how do I convert it?

[jm]

Paul Warren wrote:
> I thought that these things were UTF-8 characters or similar but iconv
> and recode both barf on the ffirst non-normal character when I try to
> process them.
>
>   

That's what I was about to suggest.

How about

  sed s/\223/\042/g


as a last resort. I'm sure there's a smarter way. Does firefox or 
anything say anything about the encoding (Tools -> Page info)?


Jeff.