luigi scarso wrote:
Maybe you can consider (under linux,I dont'know about windows) recode iconv
sometimes they are useful .
I have Cygwin installed to give me some command line tools and we already figured out iconv is probably a useful tool. Recode, on the other hand, doesn't seem to exist ("man recode" give 'No manual entry for recode' while 'man iconv' is very informative). One of my problems is that sometimes the files go out for editing to people who are only used to Windows. However, it turns out that even Word 2000 reads and saves UTF, if the open/save format is set to 'encoded text' and utf-8 is selected from the encoding type list. I just don't terribly fancy doing this for 5 x 15 files or something like that, so iconv is definitely high on the list of tools I'm going to try out. Thank you, everybody, for your help - now I know a lot better what to do and I even think my Russian contact will manage to install a working system on his XP. I'll wikify the stuff somehow once I'm sure I remember all the steps correctly (probably I'll just hog yet another XP for installation test...). Mari