On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Björn Persson wrote: > alan wrote: > > > Having a tool to do the conversion would be a good thing. Non-utf8 > > characters do some odd things to cd burning and nautilus, among others. > > Maybe the command "iconv" is what you need? In my case i need "batch-iconv". > > The problem is determining what character set it really is. If you > > download files from usenet or some other worldwide source, the files could > > be in all sorts of strange encoding. > > Yes. At least HTTP, HTML, XML and MIME have the means to handle this. Which usenet predates and ignores for the most part... > > Almost need something to let the > > user say "this directory contains files in German, this one in Chinese, > > this one in japanese, etc.) > > Being able to save the MIME type and character encoding together with > the file in the file system would be nice. Please just don't suggest a forked filesystem... ]:> > By the way, Alan, either you have a time machine or your clock is wrong. > NTP is there for you. NTP should be running on this box. Need to see what happened to it.
