encoding hebrew text

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 11:50:49 Ori Idan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 01:09:29 Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> > > OK, I found a solution.  I opened the file with both notepad and
> > > notepad++, then I changed the encoding to windows-1255 in notepad++,
> > > then I copied all the contents to notepad and saved in utf-8.  It
> > > works.  I'm attaching the result.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Uri Even-Chen
> > > Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
> > > E-mail: uri at speedy.net
> > > Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/
> >
> > Just a note, one can use iconv or Perl's
> > http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode.html
> > module or something to convert an entire file from one encoding to the
> > other:
> >
> > <<<<
> > iconv -f windows-1255 -t utf-8 < 1.txt
> >
> >
> > Seems to work here.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >        Shlomi Fish
>
> I am using iconv on linux.
> I am not sure if iconv exists for windows.

It does:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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