Am 27.04.2009 um 23:07 schrieb running:

ISO-8859-1 is different from Windows-1250, some of the czech letters
appear weird - for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø instead of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ř

Right now, when I get file like that, I need to
1) open it in TextMate, only to find out I cannot open it
2) open TextEdit, open the file in TextEdit, re-save it in UTF8
3) open it in TextMate again, swearing on all sides

I personally find this procedure stupid and I would love to have the
opportunity to, at least, open the file in Windows-1250 and convert it
to UTF8 and not having to start another text editor.

i have to work with legacy frequently and agree it's annoying. If there's no chance to convince the supplier of these documents to switch to UTF-8, then u might google for a Bundle that was done by Hans-Jörg Bibiko to read/convert such files in one step. If i remember correctly, this bundle made use of the iconv-command, which is present on every osx. U could q&d roll your own 'drag-command' with iconv to import and convert in one step.