> We have a specific requirment of converting Latin -1 character set ( iso
> 8859-1 ) text to ASCII charactet set ( a set of only 128 characters). Is
> there any special set of utilities available or service providers who can do
> that type of job.
Look after recode (a GNU package). It performs the usual conversions (like iconv
and friends, including dropping of accents "correctly"). But it also include some
more features that may be helpful to you, such as "Easy French" (where accents
are written as postponed characters, which is more legible at least for French
than acent-less), or the ugly but still usable in some cases conversions using
"BS-erasing", where the accentuated characters are composed with the base
characters, a BS (which rewind the carrier back one position) then a character
which looks like the accent. It is the way a number of accents are still written
on typewriters, and it was the way accentuated texts had to be transmitted
using 7-bit character sets back in the 70's, before the ISO 8859-x serie forbid
(with very good reasons) the use of such overstrikings.
Antoine
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