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[VAN BRUWAENE Kris]

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 03:10 am, Kris Van Bruwaene wrote:
>> The main problem remains the lack of UTF-8 support. For that I put two
>> shell commands in the shell menu that call iconv: to-ISO8859 and to-UTF8.

>Could you elaborate on that a little?  I use English almost exclusively (I may 
>occasionally try to respond with my butchered Spanish or German if someone on 
>a list writes something in Spanish or German (if I can make sense of what 
>they said ;-), but what do those two shell commands do, 

They do exactly what you'd expect: to-ISO8859 is actually:
iconv -f ISO_8859-15 -t UTF-8 (man iconv for exact syntax)
and the other:
iconv -f UTF-9 -t ISO_8859-15
to be entered in:
Preferences -> default settings -> customize menus -> shell menu

>and what do you do--I mean:

>Do you write stuff in nedit with sort of strange characters and then invoke 
>to-UTF8 to make them a valid Unicode character--oh, or more likely (??) if 
>you get a document in UTF-8, you invoke to-ISO8859, edit it, then invoke 
>to-UTF8 before saving it?

The latter actually, if I need UTF8 as output, which is not always the case, 
e.g. Latex or html source can safely stay in ISO-8859.

Kris
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