OK, your file is encoded in windows-1255. What is the problem? Open it in Notepad and save it as UTF-8. You will get a BOM at the beginning. If this is bad for you, edit the file with any editor except Notepad and remove the first 3 bytes.
Shalom (Regards), Mati Bidi Architect Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts IBM Israel Phone: +972 2 5888802 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: +972 52 2554160 From: Uri Even-Chen <u...@speedy.net> To: Tom Goren <motne...@gmail.com> Cc: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il> Date: 16/12/2009 00:47 Subject: Re: encoding hebrew text Sent by: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il OK, I'm attaching an example file with a few lines in hebrew (encode it in windows-1255 to read the hebrew). I checked now and I can convert the file to windows-1255 encoding, the problem was that it was already in utf-8 and that's why I couldn't convert it. but I still need to encode it in utf-8 with hebrew enabled, so I will be able to read the file with notepad and notepad++. Uri. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Tom Goren <motne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > [attachment "1.txt" deleted by Matitiahu Allouche/Israel/IBM] _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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