Is there a way that Swiki can do this?
For instance, I could check what system they are using and then convert
their local characters to ISO LATIN1. Does anyone have any leads on how
to do this?
Peace and Luck!
Je77
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:40:10AM +0100, Sander Tichelaar wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > There is a problem that I see and don't understand
> > really well. This is:
> >
> > - a begin to translate stuff from my G3 at home, send it over Internet to
> > my work place, just to find that the files where full of bad
> > 'diacritics' � caract�res accentu�s �. I'm wondering if the problem is
> > 1) the choice of a file format from my email 2)
> > the font utilised 3) a different mapping of the caracters using 129 -
> > 256 ascii code between MacOS and NT 4.0 4) I don't know what else....
> > Is there an easy way to do the translating job only one time... ;-)
>
> A bit of late reaction, but I had to get the answer from somebody else... We
> had the same problem with a Mac FTP client. Oscar Nierstrasz wrote some
> scripts that do the translation for you. The problem is in having different
> character encodings:
>
> "The problem is simply that Vicomsoft only translates the carriage returns
> to line feeds (and vice versa) but does not convert between Mac character
> encodings and ISO LATIN1."
>
> If anyone is interested I can send him/her the (Python) scripts. They work
> for Mac/Unix translations, but might work or be easy to adapt with NT as
> well. If many are interested I can post it on the list as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sander
>
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