$ trans :de -brief "over" >2.ascii.de.txt
$ trans :de -brief "He must." >>2.ascii.de.txt
$ cat 2.ascii.de.txt 
Über
Er muss.
$ iconv -f us-ascii -t UTF-8 2.ascii.de.txt -o 2.de.utf8.txt
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0
$ 

##</code><code>##

$ cat 2.create.bash 
#!/bin/bash

# which bash version?

echo "The shebang is specifying bash"
if [ -z "${BASH_VERSION}" ]; then
        echo "Not using bash but dash"
else
        echo "Using bash ${BASH_VERSION}"
fi 
#get the the first number from $1
#c=$(("$1" : '\([0-9]*\).*$')) didn't work
c=$(expr "$1" : '\([0-9]*\).*$') 
echo $c
f=$1

#integer addition
d=$(expr $c + 1)
echo $d

#munge new file, no clobber
t="$d"
q=${f#*.}
s=$t.$q
echo $s
cp -n $f $s
chmod +x $s
echo $s >> 1.manifest

ls -lh $s
gedit $s &
$ 

##</code><code>##

$ locale charmap
UTF-8
$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IL
en_IL.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
ru_RU.utf8
ru_UA.utf8
$ locale -m
ANSI_X3.110-1983
ANSI_X3.4-1968
...
UTF-8
VIDEOTEX-SUPPL
VISCII
WIN-SAMI-2
WINDOWS-31J
$