[CentOS] updating pandoc and converting to UTF-8

Hi guys,

I need to run pandoc. (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html)

I did this:

rpm -ivh
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum install -y pandoc

This is version 1.9.4.1

They are up to 13.1.1.

How can I update to the latest? Yum doesn't have anything more that I can
see.

Also, is there a tool like 'iconv' on OS X where I can convert between
encodings? It seems when moving this from OS X to Linux I am getting a few
encoding errors when building my project.

Thoughts are appreciated.

Jason