what's the difference with encoding with BOM and without BOM? with notepad++ I have both options, I don't know which one is better. I know that with BOM notepad recognizes it as utf-8, which is good when opening the files with notepad.
Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: u...@speedy.net Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/ On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tom Goren <motne...@gmail.com> wrote: > also i just remembered, notepad itself has an option of saving the files > natively to utf8 format, however it is utf8 with BOM, which is bad for you. > > 2009/12/16 Tom Goren <motne...@gmail.com> >> >> could you perhaps attach an example of such a file? >> >> it would make it easier to recommend the appropriate conversion for you to >> make (in my opinion it should eventually all be utf8). >> >> i know that notepad++ should be sufficient. >> >> tom. >> >> 2009/12/15 Uri Even-Chen <u...@speedy.net> >>> >>> Hi people, >>> >>> I have a problem with encoding hebrew text files on windows. I used >>> notepad to edit these files, now I'm using notepad++ (by the way, I >>> highly recommend notepad++ on windows). the problem is, hebrew text >>> appears as gibberish (ëøèéñ etc.). I tried different encodings, >>> eventually with using windows-1255 as the character set, I can read >>> the hebrew in notepad++, but I can't convert it to utf-8. Also, one >>> of my files I can't read the hebrew at all, even with windows-1255 >>> encoding. I need help to fix the hebrew encoding and convert the >>> files to utf-8. Am I right that utf-8 is the best solution for >>> hebrew? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Uri Even-Chen >>> Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 >>> E-mail: u...@speedy.net >>> Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
