Gentle persons: Almost as soon as the Unix coding began at Bell Labs nearly 40 years ago, there arose a need for to examine the contents of various files, for example, because there were as many different character encoding schemes as there were computer manufacturers in those days.
The primitive but powerful utility program "od" (for "octal dump") was created for this purpose. I've found it in every distribution of Unix/Linux I've ever used and I highly recommend using it to examine any questionable file. You can find out instantly if questionable character coding exists in your file. Use "man od" to get specifics. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
