[Fwd: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII]

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Thanks, I didn't realize this thread had so many entries.

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-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Charlie Bowman <charlie@castlebranch.com>
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:34:30 -0400

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 00:21 +0900, Wes Gamble wrote:

Charlie Bowman wrote:
> Sorry to just into this thread but I have the exact opposite problem.
> Open Office uses utf8 and I need to be able to copy text from the OO
> document into a web form. Is this possible without saving the document
> as a plain text file first?
>
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 00:03 +0900, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
>> At least on Windows XP the notepad can handle various encodings. The
>> HTH
>>
>> Michal
>
> Charlie Bowman
> http://www.recentrambles.com

I assume that you should be able to use Iconv to transform the string.
There are examples of its usage earlier in this thread.

Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com
Charlie Bowman
Programmer
Castle Branch Inc.