encoding hebrew text

[Tom Goren]

could you perhaps attach an example of such a file?

it would make it easier to recommend the appropriate conversion for you to
make (in my opinion it should eventually all be utf8).

i know that notepad++ should be sufficient.

tom.

2009/12/15 Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net>

> Hi people,
>
> I have a problem with encoding hebrew text files on windows.  I used
> notepad to edit these files, now I'm using notepad++ (by the way, I
> highly recommend notepad++ on windows).  the problem is, hebrew text
> appears as gibberish (ëøèéñ etc.).  I tried different encodings,
> eventually with using windows-1255 as the character set, I can read
> the hebrew in notepad++, but I can't convert it to utf-8.  Also, one
> of my files I can't read the hebrew at all, even with windows-1255
> encoding.  I need help to fix the hebrew encoding and convert the
> files to utf-8.  Am I right that utf-8 is the best solution for
> hebrew?
>
> Thanks,
> Uri Even-Chen
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> E-mail: uri at speedy.net
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