<ais523> addquote <fungot> boily: i walked 5 miles to get to http://community.schemewiki.org from there. but it\'s written in a relatively portable style?

#!/bin/bash

enc=$(echo "$1" | iconv -t iso8859-1 | chardet | awk '{print $2}')
echo "$1" | iconv -t iso8859-1 | iconv -f "$enc"