The ISO-8859 text is a good indication that the file is encoded in
GB2312.
So, you'll want
-f GB2312
-t UTF-8
That is all....
Progress. That made the file display in vi in Terminal correctly. Thank-you, Ed.
But the Chinese still doesn't display correctly in vi in Konsole and XTerrm.
There are other issues, but I will initiate separate threads for those.
Bill.