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Note on how to change files to UTF-8 encoding regardless of original encoding
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| TMPFILE="utf8.tmp" | |
| cp $1 $TMPFILE | |
| enc=`file -i $1 | awk 'BEGIN {FS = "="} ; {print $2; }'` # gets encoding of a file | |
| iconv -f $enc -t utf-8 $TMPFILE > $1 # changes encoding to UTF-8 | |
| rm $TMPFILE |
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