On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Jochen F. Rick wrote:
> Is there a way that Swiki can do this?
Why should it? ISO L1 is the standard, so just keep all files in that
format.
> For instance, I could check what system they are using and then convert
> their local characters to ISO LATIN1.
It's bad enough Squeak is still using non-L1 characters. I wouldn't bother
adding still other encodings. Win and Unix (mostly) agree on L1 anyway, so
the problem is only with Macs. But even then it should not automatically
translate encodings but only on request (there should be squeakToIso
methods in the image somewhere - can't remember the exact selector,
though).
> Does anyone have any leads on how to do this?
Whenever I need to recode a file with odd character codes
(like Mac Roman ;^) there's "GNU recode" which does an excellent job on
that. If you really want to build character code translation into other
software, it can generate translation tables for you.
-- Bert
