[CentOS] updating pandoc and converting to UTF-8

[John Doe]

From: Jason T. Slack-Moehrle <slackmoehrle at gmail.com>

> I need to run pandoc. (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html)
> How can I update to the latest? Yum doesn't have anything more that I can
> see.

The page says: "If the version in your repository is too old, use the instructions below under All platforms"
Or upgrade to CentOS 7 maybe... it seems to have 1.12.x

> 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.

iconv is/should already be installed...
  /usr/bin/iconv

JD