Posted by N Cook on 10/21/69 11:16

"N Cook" <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Toby Inkster" <usenet200504@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > N Cook wrote:
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> > > http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/dysch.htm
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> > As I said yesterday, this is a UTF-16 file. You ought to specify that
it's
> > UTF-16 in the HTTP headers.
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> > Better yet -- convert it to UTF-8 (which handles Hebrew characters just
> > fine!) and specify UTF-8 in the HTTP headers.
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> > Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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> The Hebrew text as perceived by Google covers 'letters'
> & # 1488 ... & # 1514 (no spaces)
> Is there a simple way of converting them to equivalents
> that will not upset Google. I'm thinking of a cut & paste
> into an online facility like online language translation.
> I couldn't find one using keywords {convert "utf-16 to utf-8" online }
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For the archives, for anyone else not so computer-wise.
It looks as though all that is required is when it comes to saving file to
disk , in my case from Notepad, to
select coding option in "Save As" as UTF-8 rather than Unicode which I had
done before.
Will try ftp, UTF-8 version revised file this week

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