On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:46:26 +0200 Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it> wrote: .. > to verify that the file is really all UTF8 you can run > $ iconv -f UTF8 -t UTF8 < mplayer.1 >/dev/null > if there's any error report the encoding is not valid thanx, i didn't know this trick i did it and it seems ok