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tool used for character set conversion and manipulation. Its purpose is to transform the encoding of text files from one character set to another, allowing for seamless compatibility and proper interpretation across different systems and applications.

recode UTF-8..ISO-8859-1 file.txt # converts the character encoding of file.txt from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1