I've looked through the site, the FAQ, and the source and can't find an answer so I ask it here: In MSWord I can load and save a plain text file in various encoding. I'm surprised to find that AbiWord seems not to have such a feature. For instance, I would like to go to File/Open, select Files of type/Encoded text (*.txt) and then choose from a list of encodings for this file. Firstly I'd like to be able to choose between ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-2, etc. single byte encodings. Secondly I'd like to be able to choose UTF-8, SJIS, etc. multibyte/wide encodings - which may be more difficult to implement. In MSWord this process is interactive and shows a section of the text interpreted in the encoding you have selected. This is very cool but a first step would just be to be able to choose. I've also noticed that Indian ISCII encodings seem not to be supported. Is this AbiWord's fault or inconv's? I have some knowlege of these areas and am willing and able to work on them if somebody can help to get me started. Andrew. __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
