Kent Karlsson <kentk at md dot chalmers dot se> wrote: > To avoid "flag bloat", one can instead use the "iconv" command, > and apply that to the source files. Since "head" and "tail" assumes > an ASCII compatible singlebyte or multibyte encoding, where any > state is reset at LF, the target encoding for the iconv command > must, for those commands, be such an encoding.
I assume that means iconv doesn't consider SCSU to be "ASCII compatible," since SCSU doesn't reset its state at LF. Then again, SCSU has a 16-bit "Unicode mode" which allows arbitrary bytes, so I guess I answered my own question. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
