Re: UTF-8: Michael takes the plunge

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Apr 06 1999 - 09:13:43 EDT


Ar 02:09 -0700 1999-04-06, scríobh Markus Kuhn:

>GNU recode does provide UTF-8 <-> anything conversion
>
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/recode/recode-3.4q.tar.gz

I bet you a pint this won't run on my Macintosh.

>Another alternative is this Perl program that replaces HTML/SGML
>numerical character references by the corresponding UTF-8 sequences and
>is excellently suited to quickly enter UTF-8 test documents:

What if my HTML doesn't use "numerical character references"?

>You can get a Perl interpreter from
>
> http://www.perl.com/pace/pub/perldocs/latest.html
>
>and there is even a Mac version on
>
> http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/perl.html

Yes, and 3.5 MB it was to download too. But I have no idea what I should do
with it and what you sent earlier.

Repeat after me: Not everyone is a programmer. Everyone is not a
programmer. Programmers are a tiny subset of the population of the world.

About as cheerily as possible,

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