Every time she converted a segment, something small shifted. A lamp in her room would flicker. A memory would soften at the edges. Yesterday, after converting 01-15-22 , she couldn’t remember her mother’s face.

iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 MIFD-552.srt > MIFD-552_utf8.srt

This appears to be a from a subtitle timing tool (e.g., Aegisub, Subtitle Edit, FFmpeg, or an OCR subtitle converter). Here’s a breakdown: