Re: Tamil translators please pay attention

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On 2003-06-05(Thu) 00:05:20 +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> In fact, the tscii encoding, as almost all "quick and dirty 8bit" encodings,
> are based on windows-1252, not in iso-8859-1.
> A conversion to iso-8859-1 fails, due to some chars being in the
> range 0x80-0x9f which doesn't exist in iso-8859-1
> 
> so, it will work better with:
> 
> cat old.po | iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1252//IGNORE | iconv -f tscii -t utf-8 > new.po

Aha, so I understand why some of them failed. I mistakenly thought that
they were originally in latin1 encoding. Thanks pablo, now they
are converted correctly, no need to add //IGNORE at all.

Abel

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