Re: identify encoding from a file

[Thomas Krichel]

  Marios lyberak writes

> i have a file which is generated out of an old Paradox database,
>
> and i try to figure out what is the encoding of these strangely represented
> characters

  I know of no way to automate this, and I don't think anybody else
  does. You just simply need to read the file with various encodings
  set at parsing, and manually inspect whether you get the right
  output.

  Your Paradox manual may be of help to reduce the number of candidate
  character sets.

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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
  skype:thomaskrichel

Re: identify encoding from a file

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Marios lyberak  wrote:
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Based on the fact that the output of "iconv -f iso-8859-7
LibGroup.xml" shows some of the expected Greek characters, I suspect
that the original Paradox database was using the ISO-8859-7 or
Windows-1253 character encoding, although whatever export routine
generated the file obviously mishandled its attempt to convert it to
UTF8.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
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