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From: "ralf.strandell" <ralf.strandell@silja.com>
Subject: Re: translate produces rubbish
Message-ID: <yYrU4.63$ZO5.2062@read2.inet.fi>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 07:34:54 GMT
Organization: Sonera corp Internet services
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz wrote in message
>First off, the command doesn't make sense -- if you translate
>a file from ASCII to CP850, the result would be identical, since
Oh, true. It must be from "finnish" to "cp850"...
...
>In the meantime, you can work around this problem as follows:
>
> set file ucs byte-order big-endian
> translate file1 latin1 ascii file2
> set file ucs byte-order little-endian
Thank You very much for your help!
Ralf