From: Eladio V. <ela...@ya...> - 2003-07-04 11:35:53
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* Tomohiro KUBOTA <ku...@de...> [030704 01:40]: > It is theoretically impossible. > > However, there are softwares which can configure their file I/O encoding > and console I/O encoding independently, such as emacs (text editor) and > lv (text viewer). Now, you can set file I/O encoding as ISO-8859-1 (or > ISO-8859-15 or KOI8-R or EUC-JP or anything you like) and console I/O > encoding as UTF-8 for such softwares. Thank you for your reply - you pretty much describes my setup as it is. It just annoys me that certain emails in, say, mutt get mangled beyond recognition. I guess I'll just have to live with it, turn certain files into XML and modify my own apps to work with unicode. *sigh* Why MUST life be so hard?! Anyway, at least I have one less road to explore now. Again, thanks for taking the time. -- "Thinking gives you wrinkles!" Malibu Stacy, the Simpsons |