OK, I found a better way to do it, that also gives a hint to the
questions below:
cat cddbread.2 | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | iconv -f hebrew -t utf8
My guess is that the data somehow along the way was encoded as
windows-cp1255, and then interpreted as latin-1. From there the
convention to utf8
On Friday 17 July 2009, Levy, Chen wrote:
OK, I found a better way to do it, that also gives a hint to the
questions below:
cat cddbread.2 | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | iconv -f hebrew -t utf8
My guess is that the data somehow along the way was encoded as
windows-cp1255, and then interpreted
Shalom, fine folks.
-- Short story: --
When ripping Hebrew CDs the data I get from CDDB (or freeCDDB, I can't tell),
data encoded with Aleph as 0xC3A0, Bet as 0xC3A1 and so on.
-- Longer story: --
I was able to convert it into proper utf8 [Aleph as (d7,90)] only via the
pipeline:
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