Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:58:34AM +0200, Ilan Aisic wrote:
> Anyone aware of a utility/program to convert hebrew text between the different 
> codesets and representations?

iconv(1) is a general-purpose charset convertor.

recode is aanother one. More tolerant of its input.

> 
> In particular, I'm interested in changing mutlibyte Hebrew to and from 
> HTML characters.
> where:
> <Alef><Beit>...<Taf> would be:
> Mulitbye hebrew in hex (e0 is Alef, 2e is '.'):
> e0e12e2e2efa
> The same in HTML ("&#1488;" is Alef, '.' is '.'):
> &#1488;&#1489;...&#1514;

For such html conversions, use a web browser.

$ echo '&#1488;&#1489;...&#1514;' |lynx -dump -stdin

   אב...ת

If this does not produce the required output, check lynx's various
charset settings.

A different approach is a simple sed script.
I once wrote a simple perl script for converting between different
Hebrew representations in LaTeX. You can find in the the 'util/'
subdirectory of the ivritex source distribution.

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