i did a search on convmv, found iconv, and it works and i can read slovak in scid now in all its natural beauty.
now the slovak text is also shown in the comment editor window and ready to be edited, previously that comment editor window was just left blank. thank you SO much! ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:40:22 +0200 From: e...@inode.at Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Slovak in pgns To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200907240940.22263.e...@inode.at> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, Good. Your friend saved the pgn in cp-1250 (windows?) and you have to convert this to utf-8 I opened your pgn with kwrite (or kate) and changed the code to cp1250. There are many programs for converting (convmv) available on internet for windows and linux. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250 Franz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users