HI sjb et al... OK, I got it more or less working. I used your idea of viewing the file in Mozilla. I then played with the different settings until I found one that showed the German letters. It turns out that my wife's machine uses IBM850 code. What the hell ever happened to simple ASCII? 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? Thanks, JIM On Thursday 05 August 2004 18:26, sjb wrote:
James Hatridge wrote:
The problem is with my wife's system. She uses WP4.2 in English. I save something that she writes as an ASCII file which shows the German fine on her dos system. But when I transfer it to my SuSE system all the German letters show up as either small squares or just blanks.
How are you viewing the files on your machine?
Any ideas on how to fix this? (other than getting a new wife <G>)
I don't know anything about how WP saves ASCII files, but it's almost certainly a code page / character set problem.
There are a number of things you can try - if you're using Konsole, try selecting the unicode font - that would be a start.
If that doesn't help you can use iconv to convert from one encoding to another, but that kind of assumes you know what encoding WP is using. If you can open the file in Mozilla and try the various character encodings until the characters look right, that might help.
If you get no joy, you can send me an example file and I'll see if I can figure out how to view it.
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