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List:       nedit-discuss
Subject:    Re: apply character set conversion after opening and prior to
From:       Joor Loohuis <joor () loohuis-consulting ! nl>
Date:       2003-05-31 5:09:10
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On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 23:04, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> in order to edit UTF-8 files, which only use those characters available
> in ISO-8859-15, we would like to convert the file on-the-fly from UTF-8
> to ISO-8859-15 after opening it and back before saving it. Would it be
> possible to achieve that behaviour with nedit?

I think you'd best convert the encoding outside of NEdit, since it has
no support for unicode. Try a perl script that uses the Unicode::MapUTF8
module (it's on CPAN). It provides functions that do exactly what you
need.

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