On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:56:49AM +0200, Ron Artstein wrote: > > 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.
Why not simply convert: uniconv --encode ISO-8859-1 |iconv --decode ISO-8859-8 -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
