[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I see a rhombus with a question mark inside (which is the way my > shell displays non-ASCII characters). I guess it is a c with cedilla > from the context.
> So, I would like to ask you or anybody else: is there some kind of > tool (e.g., a text editor) that I could use to discover which > encoding is being used? The first thing to do is get a hexadecimal dump of the data, to see what the actual byte sequence is. The unix "od" utility is good for this, and I think emacs has a mode for viewing data in hex. Once you see what byte codes are being used to represent a c-cedilla (and/or other non-ascii characters that are clearly inferable from context), you scan through the various cross-mapping code tables that are available for inspection or download at unicode.org (http://www.unicode.org/Public/ MAPPINGS/). As a clue, if you see a two-byte sequence for each accented character, whereas the plain-ascii characters are all single-byte, then the data is probably in utf8 (another clue for this is that the first byte of each multi-byte character will always have the same value for a given language). On the other hand, if all characters appear to be single-byte, you'll need to look for the name of the inferred character (e.g. "LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA") in the various cross-mapping tables, and determine which table has the appropriate byte code that matches your data for this character. Dave G.
