Banishing SmartQuotes from Allegedly "plaintext" Files

I don't consider a text file to be "plain text" if it's UTF-8 with those accursed "smart quotes". To get rid of them, use the iconv utility. Example:

$ iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit <file>

Maybe not worth a full post, but it took me a while to find the answer online, so there it is.

-R.