If I open the file with notepad, the hebrew text is not readable. If I save it as utf-8, the hebrew text is not readable even in notepad++. I need to convert the file to utf-8 in another way, I can't see any option to encode it with windows-1255 in notepad.
attached it the file in utf-8. 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 12:55 AM, Matitiahu Allouche <mat...@il.ibm.com> wrote: > > 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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