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">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">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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