--- /usr/portage/sys-apps/less/files/lesspipe.sh	2013-08-06 17:01:32.000000000 -0500
+++ /home/ssb/bin/lesspipe.sh	2013-10-21 10:24:21.772794865 -0500
@@ -195,6 +195,23 @@
 
 	### Everything else ###
 	*)
+		case `file -b -- "$1"` in
+			*UTF-16\ Unicode\ text*) conv='UTF-16' ;;
+			*UTF-32\ Unicode\ text*) conv='UTF-32' ;;
+		esac
+		if [ -n "$LC_ALL" ]; then
+			env="$LC_ALL"
+		elif [ -n "$LC_CTYPE" ]; then
+			env="$LC_CTYPE"
+		else
+			env="$LANG"
+		fi
+		env=`echo $env | cut -d. -f2`
+		if [ -n  "$conv" -a -n "$env" -a "$conv" != "$env" ]; then
+			if iconv -f $conv -t $env -- "$1"; then
+				exit 0
+			fi
+		fi
 		case $(( recur++ )) in
 			# Maybe we didn't match due to case issues ...
 			0) lesspipe "$1" "$(echo $1 | LC_ALL=C tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" ;;