Converting Text to unicode

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Re: Converting Text to unicode by borisz (Canon) on Jan 25, 2005 at 17:07 UTC
Without testing and Assume, that your input data is in iso-8859-6 ( Arabic ) hopefully. `perl -Mencoding=iso-8859-6,stdout,utf-8 -pe1 <infile >outfile` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Converting Text to unicode by halley (Prior) on Jan 25, 2005 at 16:53 UTC
I don't specifically know what is common in the way of non-Unicode encodings of Arabic text. The essential thing about email is that each email message is generally written with an ASCII or UTF-8 encoding, and that anything that is not in that format needs to be wrapped as a MIME "attachment" block. The email client then inspects those MIME headers to make sense of your message. You might want to see my FMTYEWTK about Characters vs Bytes for a generic primer to Unicode (and how Unicode itself isn't exactly an encoding). -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]
Re: Converting Text to unicode by Anonymous Monk on Jan 25, 2005 at 17:41 UTC
`uudecode` it. All SMS capable phones are capable of displaying the characters used by `uudecode`.	[reply]