Different encodings? Would this fix it:
iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 in.txt > out_utf-8.txt

Even with non-programming work, I spend maybe 70% of my time inside the terminal (iTerm2).

Yes I like computers and devices that are not intruding on what I want to achieve and do.

My latest craze, getting eBooks just in case I'm out from my house for longer periods as a nomad.

It's good to keep track of those, anyway, might be needed in future when traveling to Europe and other places.

You need to then live in a country of 1000 lakes.

Those Ataris were common in studios due to the early day Midi applications running on them (Steinberg and others).

I've tried various other ones but always getting back to iTerm2 myself.

I'm actually reading more books nowadays.

Even corporations would benefit from avoiding allocating resources to employee health costs if this was handled on a global/federal/government level, like in Europe. Would be a win/win for everyone.

I would use Mail.app for everything if it weren't the lousy integration to Gmail.

I'm so used to keyboard shortcuts to launch and switch apps (Raycast et rest) so I have not even used the Dock for ages). One main view is all I need.

You could turn that off nowadays in the preferences.