On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 04/04/2008 10:47 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her > >>to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I > >>do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she > >>send plain text. > That seems to be in Microsoft code page 1250 (cp1250). Install 'recode' > and do this: > > recode cp1250..ascii < email.txt
Thanks, I had an "ambiguous" error re linefeeds and just tried the other cp's and found that cp1258 works fine. thanks. doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
