Fri, 06 Aug 2004, by ottaky@ottaky.com:
James Hatridge wrote:
Anyway I then used iconv to change it to utf-8. Now I can see the German letters without problems. Is there anyway I can add IBM850 to the normal list of character sets?
I'm sure there must be .. but I don't know what it is, sorry >8-(
Without going into long and boring stories about problems with character codings (and I've got hundreds of 'em!), I'd recommend always using UTF8 for everything.
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