6 Aug
2004
6 Aug
'04
07:14
James Hatridge
I save something that she writes as an ASCII file which shows the German
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <nitpick> That can't be, as ASCII has no umlauts :) </nitpick>
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.
The reason is the differing encoding. DOS uses codepages 437 or 852, whereas your Linux system uses either iso-8859-1 (< 9.1) or utf-8 (>= 9.1). Use recode to change the encoding: recode ibmpc..lat1 <textfile> for latin1 aka iso-8859-1 or recode ibmpc..utf-8 for transformation to utf-8. Philipp