I do not see your file, but I often get trouble with \r at the line ends, messing up a lot of things in linux.
If that is the case here try to strip \r from the file before converting it to ascii. I do it like this: cat file | sed 's/\r//g' > anotherFile Color codes from grep and such wreck about the same havoc while also being invisible. Hope that helps, Tomas On Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 16:38 American Citizen <[email protected]> wrote: > Rich: > > owner@localhost:~> iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII ttt.txt -o ttt.ascii > iconv: illegal input sequence at position 465 > owner@localhost:~> > > So I cannot hammer a UTF-8 file into ASCII > > owner@localhost:~> iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 ttt.ascii.txt -o ttt.utf-8.txt > owner@localhost:~> file ttt.utf-8.txt > ttt.utf-8.txt: ASCII text > owner@localhost:~> > > so nothing really changed. > > Randall > > On 12/25/25 13:24, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025, American Citizen wrote: > > > >> My locale command shows identical values to yours. They match exactly. > > > > Randall, > > > > Were I in the same situation I'd use iconv on each ASCII file. Read `man > > iconv'. > > > > Example: To convert ASCII to UTF-8 in Linux, you can use the iconv > > command. > > The syntax is: iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 input_file.txt -o output_file.txt. > > > > HTH, > > > > Rich >
