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Re: [tlug] HTML Best Text Bridge?



On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:59 +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> That makes sense.  I did try a few different settings - Shift_JIS, UTF-8 
> and something else - but they didn't work.  There were a very large 
> number of options to choose from however.  What encoding does J-XP save 
> an e-mail message in when you select plain text (not the automatic 
> e-mail format)?
It probably saves as shift_jis or some derivative of this.  Use this to
convert the file to utf8 which will probably work with oo.

# iconv --from-code=SHIFT_JIS --to-code=UTF-8 -o file.utf8  inputfile.shift_jis

It might also be utf-16 encoded.  To get a list of encoding use

# iconv -l
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Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>



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