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[Joerg Fischer]

VAN BRUWAENE Kris wrote:

>  
> 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

An additional explanation is on 
http://www.nedit.org/niki/index.php/Unicode%20support
that is, in many cases in would be sufficient to have utf-8 aware
I/O operations, and this is actually a first step towards full
unicode support.

Cheers,
Jörg