Re: [WebDNA] UTF-8 encoding issues
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texte = Tom Duke wrote: > Donovan > > The easiest way to do a charset conversion is to open the db in BBedit > using the correct charset. > > If there are dodgy characters after you open it then BBedit has a reopen > using encoding option in one of the menus. Try different ones until the > db looks ok. > > Then change the charset using the menu at the bottom of the BBedit > window (UTF8- no bom) and bingo your db is in Utf8. > > - Tom Hi Tom, this is the way I converted it originally.. but I may have saved an intermediate step or something with a 3rd party encoding? !@#$... :-/ Now I have a mess to deal with. Anyway, I tried a command-line utility called iconv that is on the latest macs. It had a '-c' flag that was supposed to simply not add the characters that would not convert to the encoding you are shooting for.. however, I think my database was too messed up already for that to work. ..now going back to an old database, then rebuild from there. :-/ ...not what I wanted to do on late friday. Donovan -- Donovan Brooke WebDNA Software Corporation http://www.webdna.us **[Square Bracket Utopia]**
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Tom Duke wrote: > Donovan > > The easiest way to do a charset conversion is to open the db in BBedit > using the correct charset. > > If there are dodgy characters after you open it then BBedit has a reopen > using encoding option in one of the menus. Try different ones until the > db looks ok. > > Then change the charset using the menu at the bottom of the BBedit > window (UTF8- no bom) and bingo your db is in Utf8. > > - Tom Hi Tom, this is the way I converted it originally.. but I may have saved an intermediate step or something with a 3rd party encoding? !@#$... :-/ Now I have a mess to deal with. Anyway, I tried a command-line utility called iconv that is on the latest macs. It had a '-c' flag that was supposed to simply not add the characters that would not convert to the encoding you are shooting for.. however, I think my database was too messed up already for that to work. ..now going back to an old database, then rebuild from there. :-/ ...not what I wanted to do on late friday. Donovan -- Donovan Brooke WebDNA Software Corporation http://www.webdna.us **[Square Bracket Utopia]**
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