Re: Question about foreign/compound characters.

Craig A. Berry wrote:
In article <OF4523CC32.5397211E-ON852572A5.00799FD3-852572A5.007A0D14@xxxxxxxxx>,
norm.raphael@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

2) Is there a program around to do this or that can
easily be canibalized to do it (It seems a bit beyond
DCL)?

For goodness sake don't do it yourself. Use iconv. Type HELP ICONV CONVERT.

I typed HELP ICONV CONVERT and it didn't convert the file :-) Was I supposed to press [return] after ? :-)

ICONV is good to change the representation of the same character from one character set to another. But I do not believe that it has conversion tables that actuall change characters (eg: replace and "é" with an "e".)

I recall asking some years ago about the conversion tables and the answer I got here was that the source files were not public or some such answer.
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