On Wed, 24 Dec 2025, American Citizen wrote:
I have a set of tex files which are in pure ascii format. Unfortunately when I copy material from the internet (Mozilla Firefox browser) it is in UTF-8 format, not ascii. This appears to be standard behavior for the internet browsers.
I cannot get iconv to change the ascii file to UTF-8, so I am stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Randall, What's your locale? Here it's: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Rich
