You're correct, bad form on my part. In reality, I did it in two steps as
you suggested, just condensed for purposes of a brief communication. mark

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
wrote:

> Mark Kimpel wrote:
>
> > Thanks guys. For the benefit of anyone following up on this in the
> > future, I
> > solved my problem in my offending file with:
> >
> > iconv -f LATIN1 -t UTF-8 methods.output.func.R >> methods.output.func.R
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> That line triggers a knee-jerk reflex with me (possibly unfairly since it
> apparently did the job). I have always learned that using the same file for
> input and output is asking for trouble: if something goes wrong on the way,
> you end with neither of them. I'd do
>
> iconv -f LATIN1 -t UTF-8 methods.output.func.R > xxxx
> mv xxxx methods.output.func.R
>
>
>
>
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