At 4:20 pm -0700 7/7/06, Jianyang Tai wrote:
Thanks John. The original characters came from Japan, don't know if they use some proprietary extension of shift_jis. Attached is the zipped file. Hope it come across correctly this time. It should contains characters 0x 87408741.
That's windows codepage 932 so... from_to $text, "cp932", "utf-8" <http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT> 0x84BB 0x2530 #BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT 0x84BC 0x2525 #BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL LIGHT AND LEFT HEAVY 0x84BD 0x2538 #BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT 0x84BE 0x2542 #BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT 0x8740 0x2460 #CIRCLED DIGIT ONE 0x8741 0x2461 #CIRCLED DIGIT TWO 0x8742 0x2462 #CIRCLED DIGIT THREE 0x8743 0x2463 #CIRCLED DIGIT FOUR JD