Re: changing file encodings

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:39:14PM +0200, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:

> Excuse me for this so late email
> Just I noticed that you said you use acon then transform to UTF-8
> ummm
> Can you please give me more explanation ??
> If you don't want to flood the list ,although I think some guys here would
> like to learn that too ,you can send me a private email.
> Thanks alot
> >
> > I personally use acon with the iso encoding then transform the file to
> > utf-8 with iconv:
> > iconv --from-code=ISO_8859-6 --to-code=UTF-8  file.po -o fileutf-8.po
> >

What he is saying is that, under acon (using vi or whatever) he saves the
file. The file is then encoded in ISO-8859-6. This is no good for PO's, so he
converts (transforms) it to utf-8 with the above command (iconv).


Hope that helps.
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