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   Hey Nick!   
      
   > It seems iconv most likely doesn't know what to do with it,   
   > because it's showing here as UTF-8.   
      
   Strange.  As is 'file' shows it as 'ISO-8859 text' which I know is wrong.    
   Forcing it using 'iconv -f koi8-r' shows it as 'Unicode text, UTF-8 text' and   
   the line in question becomes; Сильный, как бык, умный,   
   как трактор.  Definetly more evidence in favour of setting all   
   output to utf-8 given all the 8-bit character confusion and corruption.  I   
   believe I said that at the start of this particular thread.   
      
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