Terminal Shell encoding ISO to UTF8

[Rolf Kocherhans]

Hello all

I asked a similar question just some weeks ago but now the problemis a  
little different.

The problem regards german umlauts (a,o,u with two dots on top).

I read out info from a MAC plist file (INFO = settings file for WIN  
users !) with the "default read" shell command and put
the result into a variable. When the variable contains umlauts and I  
display it I get:

- for Peter Muller (where the u, would have two dots on top)
- Peter M\334ller

If I look inside the plist file with the "Property Llist Editor" the  
name appears
correct on 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5, but if I fetch the name with the  
"default read" shell command
I always get the above.

I searched with google and found out that this is ISO 8859-1 but in  
oktal format
eg. umlauts o returns \326, u returns \334, a returns \344 etc.

Is there a way to change this automatically to utf8 with Revolution?

I tried dozens of variants of uniencode and unidecode but got nowhere
also isotomac did not help.


Can anyone help ?

Cheers
Rolf