Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: omf encoding

[Dan M. <mu...@al...>]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> Dan Mueth <mu...@al...> writes:
> 
> > Does anybody happen to know if there is a command-line tool to convert
> > files from one encoding to another, and one character set to another?
> 
> Use iconv (or recode).
>   I
> > Similarly, does anybody know of a tool for detecting the encoding and 
> > character set of a file?
> 
> Emacs tries guessing -- sometimes it fails, though.  AFAIK, you can
> only say something like: this is _not_ a UTF-8 files, but positive
> statements are not correct for 100% of all cases.


Thanks for the information Karl and John.

I updated the example OMF file to explicitly specify the encoding:

http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/documentation/writing_scrollkeeper_omf_files/ar01s05.html

-Dan