Re: Save text as unicode

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2002.03.07 12:37:17 +0000 Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> On 2002.03.07 13:10:39 +0100 Carlos Morgado wrote:
>> 
>> On 2002.03.07 11:27:20 +0000 Olaf Frączyk wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I would like to have a possibility to save text (or plain message) as 
>>> unicode.
>>> It's because I use mostly iso-8859-2, and if I save document in linux, I 
>>> have problems to read it in windows.
>>> 
>> isn't the correct approach to call ms support and ask them for proper
>> iso-8895 support ?
> What do you mean by 8895?

i obviously meant 8859 ;)

> Anyway, the only way to do it is unicode. In normal text file you don't 
> have information if it is 8859-1 or 8859-2. The only way is to tell the 
> application how to display it.
> The same is for unix.

yes, you're right. i misread the problem.
doesn't pango in gnome2 provide this ?

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