There's also an easy command line utility for converting into UTF8. Here's an example:<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br>
</b></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 18px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 iso.txt > utf.txt</font></b></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><br>
</span></font></span></font></b><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/4 Joe Atzberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ohiocore@gmail.com">ohiocore@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Try using an editor and configuration with known good UTF8 behavior. Something like vi or emacs, most likely.<br><br>jEdit seems to have known issues w/ UTF8 detection:<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://community.jedit.org/?q=node/view/2965" target="_blank">http://community.jedit.org/?q=node/view/2965</a><br>
</div><br>You will also have to check your terminal environment to make sure the UTF8 stuff gets across and is preserved correctly. The koha wiki "encoding scratchpad" has a lot of good things to check.<br><br>
--joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/3 Chadwick, John, DCA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.chadwick@state.nm.us" target="_blank">john.chadwick@state.nm.us</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">I am trying to edit the sort-string-utf.chr file to map
characters with diacritics (acute and grave accents) to letters without
accents. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The problem I am running into is that I am trying to open up
the files in a program called jEdit. The editor tells me that the French
version is in cp1250. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The English version is utf-8 encoding and the diacritics are
showing up in the file with all sorts of extra characters and square boxes.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Any suggestions at this point would be appreciated.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">John</span></font></p>
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