encoding hebrew text

[Matitiahu Allouche]

OK, your file is encoded in windows-1255.  What is the problem?  Open it 
in Notepad and save it as UTF-8.  You will get a BOM at the beginning.  If 
this is bad for you, edit the file with any editor except Notepad and 
remove the first 3 bytes.


Shalom (Regards),  Mati
           Bidi Architect
           Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
           IBM Israel
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From:
Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net>
To:
Tom Goren <motnerog at gmail.com>
Cc:
linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
Date:
16/12/2009 00:47
Subject:
Re: encoding hebrew text
Sent by:
linux-il-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il



OK, I'm attaching an example file with a few lines in hebrew (encode
it in windows-1255 to read the hebrew).  I checked now and I can
convert the file to windows-1255 encoding, the problem was that it was
already in utf-8 and that's why I couldn't convert it.  but I still
need to encode it in utf-8 with hebrew enabled, so I will be able to
read the file with notepad and notepad++.

Uri.


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Tom Goren <motnerog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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