Re: How to convert Windows Encoding when exporting file as docbook?

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 05:18:40 EDT

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    On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Gisbert Amm wrote:
    > I got a Word DOC from a Windows user and tried out the docbook-export.
    >
    > Unfortunately all German umlauts and other special characters are set to
    > another encoding afterwords, e.g. 'WÃOEste' where it was 'Wüste' or
    > 'Nâ~@~YDour' where it was 'N'Dour' and 'Diabaté' where it was 'Diabaté'
    > (african names).

    I suppose this could be implemented, though if/when I don't know...
    You could always try something like

    iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 file-utf.dbk > file-iso.dbk

    though that may invalidate the XML until you convert back to UTF-8

    Frank

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