Removing junk characters from text files?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Stewart C. Russell wrote:

> tcs sounds like the little brother of Gnu recode, which handles more charsets 
> than most people can even imagine could exist; 281, in the version I have.
>
> William, what do you want to do with these 'junk' characters? It's getting 
> harder and harder to work in just plain ASCII these days. It just doesn't 
> support the glyphs that people need to use.

So switch to UTF8 ?

Peter
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