Anyone using non-UTF-8 locale(s)?
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Jul 9 22:18:43 UTC 2004
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Björn Persson wrote:
> alan wrote:
>
> > Having a tool to do the conversion would be a good thing. Non-utf8
> > characters do some odd things to cd burning and nautilus, among others.
>
> Maybe the command "iconv" is what you need?
In my case i need "batch-iconv".
> > The problem is determining what character set it really is. If you
> > download files from usenet or some other worldwide source, the files could
> > be in all sorts of strange encoding.
>
> Yes. At least HTTP, HTML, XML and MIME have the means to handle this.
Which usenet predates and ignores for the most part...
> > Almost need something to let the
> > user say "this directory contains files in German, this one in Chinese,
> > this one in japanese, etc.)
>
> Being able to save the MIME type and character encoding together with
> the file in the file system would be nice.
Please just don't suggest a forked filesystem... ]:>
> By the way, Alan, either you have a time machine or your clock is wrong.
> NTP is there for you.
NTP should be running on this box. Need to see what happened to it.
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