RE: identify encoding from a file

2016-02-08 Thread Kool,Wouter
: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: Re: identify encoding from a file Marios lyberak writes > i have a file which is generated out of an old Paradox database, > > and i try to figure out what is the encoding of these strangely represented > characters I know of no way to automate this,

Re: identify encoding from a file

2016-02-06 Thread Thomas Krichel
Marios lyberak writes > i have a file which is generated out of an old Paradox database, > > and i try to figure out what is the encoding of these strangely represented > characters I know of no way to automate this, and I don't think anybody else does. You just simply need to read the file

Re: identify encoding from a file

2016-02-06 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Marios lyberak wrote: > in > > ̡觴ݲ -> Μαθητές > > and in > > > > ʡ解紝 -> Καθητητές Based on the fact that the output of "iconv -f iso-8859-7 LibGroup.xml" shows some of the expected Greek characters, I suspect that the original Paradox database was using the

identify encoding from a file

2016-02-06 Thread Marios lyberak
Hello community, i have a file which is generated out of an old Paradox database, and i try to figure out what is the encoding of these strangely represented characters in ̡觴ݲ -> Μαθητές and in ʡ解紝 -> Καθητητές Our goal is to convert the attached file to a UTF encoding, so as the characte