title: Converting a UTF-8 greek letters to ASCII using ASCII//IGNORE//TRANSLIT
body: <p>I am using Linux terminal </p>
  
  <pre><code>echo -n "ΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ" | iconv -f utf-8 -t ASCII//IGNORE//TRANSLIT
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  <p>but error:  ilegal sequence.</p>
  
  <p>Expected result: something as Α=A, Γ=G, Δ=D, Ε=E, Λ=L, etc.</p>
  
  <p>PS: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/8399442/287948">similar to PHP's problem here</a> but  utf8 not accepted on terminal.</p>