I will rather use this source than `recode`
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+foreach $file (@ARGV)
+{
+ print "Converting $file\n";
+
+ open(fi, "<$file") || die;
+ open(fo, ">$file-tr") || die;
+ print fo "# $file charset file
+# Imported from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/$file
+# (c) 2003, Robert Spalek <robert@ucw.cz>
+
+";
+ while (<fi>)
+ {
+ next if /^#/;
+ chop;
+ ($code, $unicode, $comment) = /^0x(..)\t0x(....)\t#\t(.*)$/;
+ print fo "$code\t$unicode\t$comment\n";
+ }
+ close(fo);
+ close(fi);
+}