Instructions out of your predicament (for future note):With UTF-8 you ... reduce to (almost) zero the chance the site
will be viewed with a wrong encoding.
Oh yeah?
Just yesterday I ran into a page that had what looked at first to be unrecognized windows-1255 or iso-8859-8 encoding (with Hebrew characters appearing as lowercase accented Latin characters), but it turned out that these Latin characters were in UTF-8.
I was even able to read the text by performing mental substitutions (a-grave = alef, a-acute = bet etc), but I wasn't able to find a way to convert these characters to Hebrew. What I needed and didn't have was a UTF-8 > Latin-1 filter.
A. Copy the text into the clipboard.
B. Run "LC_CTYPE=en_US kedit" (or whatever other editor that supports clipboard).
C. Paste the text there, and save it.
D. Run "LC_CTYPE=he_UL kedit file"
viola! you have your text.
Shachar
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