Hello people. Using version 1.6.3 of gnumeric, I tried to read an xls file and save it as csv. There was a problem with the resulting csv file, in that iconv didn't want to convert it into another coding. I'm not sure where the problem lies.
The original .xls had the following string in it: 0068 0069 0070 [201A] 0072 ... I've marked the 201A code, apparently a valid utf-16 code (according to the xls specs). Gnumeric (or ssconvert) saved this in the csv as: 68 69 70 E2 80 9A 72 ... Again 201A, and it seems to be the shortest utf-8 code that can represent it. But iconv -f utf8 -t iso-8859-1 chokes on the sequence and aborts with: illegal input sequence at position xxxx I know -c can make iconv skip the error, but that doesn't seem elegant. Can anyone indicate where to look for a solution? John _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
