native2ascii anyone?

[aseques]

Hello, I am trying to understand better how the translation works, and doing a single conversion is really hard.
I'd like to use a simple tool to convert from iso-8859 characters to unicode characters, there's the grafic tool in the translation thread at http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=54 but I'd prefer to use something simple and able to work in command line.
For example the text in the attachment contains only 'àa', it should be translated into '\00e0a' but it gets converted as '\u2021a' that would be '‡a'
Could anyone test the output of '/usr/bin/native2ascii sample.txt' and see if my system is broken or what?

Thanks a lot

[happy.neko]

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\u00e0a