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beastaugh/iso-8859-15_to_utf-8.rb

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Convert a file from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8
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iso-8859-15_to_utf-8.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
file = ARGV.shift
contents = File.read(file, {:encoding => "ISO-8859-15", :mode => "rb"})
contents.encode!("UTF-8")
File.open(file, 'w') do |f|
f.write(contents)
end
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