Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Iconv issue

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Michel Kempeneers,

I wrote:
> 2. Please use the mail address mentioned for "Bug reports" at 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ 

and you write to me in private email!

When I tell you to use the mailing list, PLEASE USE THE MAILING LIST.

The problem/questions you have and their answer can likely help other people
as well. YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO HAS A SPECIFIC PROBLEM.

You are taking services from the community. Posting a question to the mailing
list is a way to give back know-how to the community. Please understand this!

> I was looking for a tool which can convert ANSI into UTF-8 in command mode 
> (DOS batch file) 
> Google made me find this page 
> [ https://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Converting_files_to_UTF-8 | 
> https://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Converting_files_to_UTF-8 ] 
> which refers to 
> [ http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm | 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm ] 
> where a complete version of Iconv can be found.

Yes, iconv is a tool that can do such a conversion (easily).

> I was relatively confident that even a 2004 version could still work, as 
> character encoding is sth. pretty stable. 

In general it is a bad idea to use software that is 14 years old. But
your use case is so simple that the version from 2004 already does it
flawlessly.

> the error messages I get are in... Dutch. 
> I'm based in Flanders alright, but my OS is in English, precisely for reasons 
> like this: 

The way to customize the language of the error messages is documented:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Users.html

Bruno