Hi Uri! (and all) On Sunday 18 February 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > Dear Linux people, > > In addition to my previous message, I decided it's about time to > convert my Hebrew websites from Windows-1255 encoding to Unicode > (UTF-8). (By the way, is it a smart decision?) > > Anyway, since I didn't find a better way to do it - that's how I did > it: I opened each file that contains Hebrew text (English files didn't > need any conversion) with Windows Notepad, saved it as UTF-8 encoding, > then FTP'd it to my Linux server, converted it to unix using dos2unix, > edited it with pico and removed the first 3 characters, which are > created by Notepad but don't work well with PHP (at least my version, > PHP 4.4.2), then I FTP'd it back and replaced the original file. The > problem is - it takes too much time for each file, and I have hundreds > of files. And also, Notepad doesn't recognize these files as UTF-8 > encoded files. Is there a way to do it simultaneously to hundreds of > files? >
Maybe I'm missing something, but perhaps you should look at iconv: http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ You can use the following command to convert a single file: <<<< iconv -f WINDOWS-1255 -t UTF-8 oldfile > newfile >>>> And you can convert a group of files using a shell script or a find command. If you want to do it the Perl way then read perldoc Encode: http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode.html Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
