What version of *x are you using ? On my RedHat FC11 there is no such option.

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On May 12, 2010, at 2:56 PM, David wrote:

Thanks, but I dont see anything in the man page for iconv thats me specify a range of invalid and a substitution string for them.

The invalid range is determined by the destination encoding. Use: '-t US-ASCII'


--unicode-subst=formatstring
When this option is given, Unicode characters that cannot be
represented in the target encoding are replaced with a place-
holder string that is constructed from the given formatstring,
applied to the Unicode code point. The formatstring must be a
format string in the same format as for the printf command or
the printf() function, taking either no argument or exactly one
unsigned integer argument.

Use that option: --unicode-subst='<UNKNOWN_CHARACTER>' to set the replacement string.
( assuming unicode input )

-- Steve Majewski