Hallo Richard!

 RM> ISO is a standards organization that DOES standardize character
 RM> encodings.

Yes they do.  Not only that they register all the proper aliases, including for
 iso-8859-1.

 RM> And maybe you too also have the imagination to delete the dash in
 RM> your mind.

I am not a tosser nor an editor.  As of this writing neither of the computers I
 am currently deploying have the imagination to delete anything other than what
 they are programmed to delete.  Both have access to iconv to convert back and
forth to utf-8 when required but since the 8 bit encodings cannot be readily
identified, as well as misidentification by well meaning FTSC types, they stick
 to utf-8 which they can readily identify;

-={ echo "A M├╕├╕se once bit my sister ..." | file -b - }=-
UTF-8 Unicode text

The same will not work with 8 bit encodings which is why a kludge is required. 
 However a kludge is most often wrong or poorly identified such as LATIN-1.

For the record ascii is fine;

-={ echo "A Moose once bit my sister ..." | file -b - }=-
ASCII text

:-)

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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