diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 51110893e..6e4ae67cd 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2002-07-17 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * lang/sync_lang.sh: support for multiple convertors (recode added),
+      thanks to Michal Cihar
+
 2002-07-17 Alexander M. Turek  <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
     * libraries/common.lib.php3, libraries/config_import.lib.php3: Added
       $cfg['PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning'] to the backwards compatibility code.
diff --git a/lang/sync_lang.sh b/lang/sync_lang.sh
index 4e7f54185..941d7ddb4 100755
--- a/lang/sync_lang.sh
+++ b/lang/sync_lang.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@
 # Written by Michal Cihar <nijel at users.sourceforge.net>
 ##
 
+##
+# convertor setup
+##
+# CONVERTOR_PARAMS is used for printf and it also receives two params: source
+# and target charset
+#
+#for iconv
+#CONVERTOR=iconv
+#CONVERTOR_PARAMS="-f %s -t %s"
+#for recode:
+CONVERTOR=recode
+CONVERTOR_PARAMS="%s..%s"
+
 
 ##
 # names of translations to process
@@ -89,16 +102,16 @@ for base in $BASE_TRANSLATIONS ; do
         if [ $charset = 'utf-8' ] ; then
             # if we convert to utf-8, we should add allow_recoding
             is_utf=yes
-            iconv -f $src_charset -t $charset $base.inc.php3| sed -e "s/$src_charset/$charset/" -e '/\$charset/a\
+            $CONVERTOR $(printf -- "$CONVERTOR_PARAMS" $src_charset $charset) < $base.inc.php3| sed -e "s/$src_charset/$charset/" -e '/\$charset/a\
 $allow_recoding = TRUE;' > $file
             echo done
         elif [ $src_charset = 'utf-8' ] ; then
             # if we convert fomo utf-8, we should remove allow_recoding
-            iconv -f $src_charset -t $charset $base.inc.php3| grep -v allow_recoding > $file
+            $CONVERTOR $(printf -- "$CONVERTOR_PARAMS" $src_charset $charset) < $base.inc.php3| grep -v allow_recoding > $file
             echo done
         else
             # just convert
-            iconv -f $src_charset -t $charset $base.inc.php3| sed "s/$src_charset/$charset/" > $file 
+            $CONVERTOR $(printf -- "$CONVERTOR_PARAMS" $src_charset $charset) < $base.inc.php3| sed "s/$src_charset/$charset/" > $file 
             echo done
         fi
     done