Problem with iconv

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Published on 2010-03-26T13:52:12Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 14:03 UTC
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Hi all!

If you are on Mac OS X 10.6, and you are familiar with character encoding AND the terminal please do this:

Open a terminal and type the following commands:

echo sÃ¸rensen > test.txt iconv -f UTF8 -t ISO-8859-1 test.txt

You will see the output: "sørensen". Can somebody explain what is going on?

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