On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:10:12 +0100, Axel E. [email protected] wrote:
p Iconv.iconv(“ascii//translit”,“iso-8859-1”,s)[0] => “caff?”
It seems as if either your system is broken or the file is not in ISO
8859-1 because that conversion should work and it does so on my Fedora
9:
Linux pen2.homeunix.net 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 17
14:20:33
EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ iconv --version|head -1
iconv (GNU libc) 2.8
Are you sure that you do not get “caffA?” in place of “caff?”? That
would
suggest that the file is encoded using utf8, not an encoding of the ISO
8859 familiy.