You're right of course. Writing a simple conversion utility for this case is easy in any language. It must have been done before (probably for all the other codesets) and I didn't want to "invent the wheel".
--ilan > -----Original Message----- > From: Oron Peled [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:25 AM > To: Ilan Aisic; 'Linux-IL mailing list' > Subject: Re: Convert Hebrew Text Between Codesets > > > On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:58, Ilan Aisic wrote: > > In particular, I'm interested in changing mutlibyte Hebrew > to and from > > HTML characters. > > where: > > The same in HTML ("א" is Alef, '.' is '.'): > > Ok, for this part of the question (nobody answered yet), why > not use sed? Write the following script: > #! /bin/sed -f > s/<Alef>/\&\#1488;/g > s/<Beit>/\&\#1489;/g > ... > > > -- > Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > > The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that > heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but > "That's funny ..." > -- Isaac Asimov > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]