I have just posted an Ant task to help automate the conversion of files from one encoding to another. I looked around for similar tasks and found: a) the same thing could be done with the native2ascii task but you'd have to do run it twice -- once to convert to \uXXXX format and again (in reverse) to convert to the desired output encoding; and b) there didn't seem to be another task that did encoding conversions easily.
<aside> In the work for Ant2, I'd remove the native2ascii task and replace it with a general purpose encoding converter that also has the ability to convert to the \uXXXX format produced by native2ascii. </aside> The CyberNeko Encoding Converter (nekoconv for short) comes with a simple command-line tool, a simple Swing GUI frontend, and an Ant task. Instead of writing all of the code to handle wildcards and such, I just pushed that functionality off to Ant which excels at that kind of thing. :) I originally wrote it to help a friend convert a bunch of resource files in multiple languages into a single character encoding. But then I figured that it may be useful to other people as well. Anyway, NekoConv is released under an Apache-style license and is available for download at: http://www.apache.org/~andyc/neko/i18n/doc/index.html Enjoy! -- Andy Clark * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
