diff --git a/hunspell-la.spec b/hunspell-la.spec
index ad256ba..a65d435 100644
--- a/hunspell-la.spec
+++ b/hunspell-la.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Name: hunspell-la
 Summary: Latin hunspell dictionaries
 %define upstreamid 20080903
 Version: 0.%{upstreamid}
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 Group: Applications/Text
 Source: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/files/1141/0/dict-la_2008-09-03.oxt
 URL: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/dict-la
@@ -20,10 +20,16 @@ Latin hunspell dictionaries.
 %setup -q -c -n hunspell-la
 
 %build
-tr -d '\r' < README_extension_owner-la.txt > README_extension_owner-la.txt.new
-mv -f README_extension_owner-la.txt.new README_extension_owner-la.txt
-tr -d '\r' < la/README-la-2008-09-03.txt > la/README-la-2008-09-03.txt.new
-iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 la/README-la-2008-09-03.txt.new > la/README-la-2008-09-03.txt
+for i in README_extension_owner-la.txt la/README-la-2008-09-03.txt; do
+  if ! iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -o /dev/null $i > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 $i > $i.new
+    touch -r $i $i.new
+    mv -f $i.new $i
+  fi
+  tr -d '\r' < $i > $i.new
+  touch -r $i $i.new
+  mv -f $i.new $i
+done
 
 %install
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -40,6 +46,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/myspell/*
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 11 2009 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 0.20080903-3
+- tidy spec
+
 * Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.20080903-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild