encoding hebrew text

[Uri Even-Chen]

what's the difference with encoding with BOM and without BOM?  with
notepad++ I have both options, I don't know which one is better.  I
know that with BOM notepad recognizes it as utf-8, which is good when
opening the files with notepad.

Uri Even-Chen
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tom Goren <motnerog at gmail.com> wrote:
> also i just remembered, notepad itself has an option of saving the files
> natively to utf8 format, however it is utf8 with BOM, which is bad for you.
>
> 2009/12/16 Tom Goren <motnerog at gmail.com>
>>
>> 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
>>> Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
>>> E-mail: uri at speedy.net
>>> Blog: http://www.speedy.net/uri/blog/
>>>
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