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Archive of entries posted on 22nd February 2005

Converting ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8 (and back again)

Recently I had to convert ISO-8859-1 data to UTF-8. The quick and easy way to do this is to use iconv from the command line. Unfortunately this had to be done from within a Visual C++/MFC application on Windows (so Cygwin wasn’t really an option). Fortunately, I found libiconv-win32. I installed the source and built [...]