I'm looking for some tool that can convert text, ideally from UTF-8 (but ISO-8859-2 and WINDOWS-1250 would be fine) into ASCII/ISO-8859-1?
I have seen some online transliteration tools but I need something for the command line (and iconv is refusing to convert the file).
iconv
is the command line tool for that task. Mind to share how exactly it refuses to serve you?