For nice and sexxy VIM put this in your .vimrc file. The last couple of lines are GVim stuff that removes your toolbar

 set expandtab
 syntax on
 set ts=4
 set sw=5
 set number
 unmenu ToolBar
 unmenu! ToolBar

LaTeX CV package: CV

Recode - convert between character encodings.
E.G: Recodes from utf8(u8) to ISO-8859-15(Also known as Latin9, hence l9)

recode u8..l9 file.txt