On Wednesday 30 Jun 2010 15:47:27 Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:46:29PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:22:02PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > >... > > > > Actually answering the question in the subject line: can you try the > > command-line option --viaucs (or through the configuration window: > > "Encoding => Process received strings via unicode") ? > > Hi, > First, thanks to you and to all those who answered. > > I guess you meant that, instead of starting the mlterm shell with the usual > LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C mlterm -D=false -E UTF-8 -T "He UTF-8 mlterm" > -g 120x25+0+0 -w 24 -o 5 -bg WhiteSmoke -fg black , I should try to use > LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C mlterm --viaucs -D=false -E UTF-8 -T "He > UTF-8 mlterm" -g 120x25+0+0 -w 24 -o 5 -bg WhiteSmoke -fg black > > and then try the > catdoc Desktop/L_9_27_06_2010.doc | sed 's/[CtrlVx80-CtrlVxff]//; /^[ > ]*$/d' | view - or > catdoc Desktop/L_9_27_06_2010.doc | sed 's/CtrlVxa0//; /^[ ]*$/d' | view > - > > I tried it and got only question marks (but the offending character had > been removed). I captured the output in a file u. Then "file u" gave > "ASCII text". לך תדע! > If I misunderstood your advice, please correct. > > -To Shlomi: I am ashamed to admit: Since I retired, some 10 years ago and > also ceased to be involved in the professional life of others, four years > ago, I could not find something to fuel my motivation to learn Perl, so > that I forgot even what you teached me in the Tel-Aviv club.
I see. > Your advice is > Chinese for me (good that this list is in English: I would not be able to > write in good faith "C'est de l'Hebreu pour moi!", the equivalent French > expression). Actually, in English the usual idiom is "it's Greek to me". See: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutual- incomprehension/ (short URL - http://xrl.us/behomv ). > -Signature: I stand corected! Thanks. Now, I understand why my MS > Windows-using friends continued to send me powerpoint presentations, > despite my request: It was written in bad English! Another note is that "Excell" is spelt "Excel" (with a single "l" - not a double "l".). Regards, Shlomi Fish > Cheers, Avraham -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody on "The Fountainhead" - http://shlom.in/towtf God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
