[ILUG] Info on putting Linux on a Hewlett Packard XE3 laptop

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: 07 Jun 2002 11:22:20 +0100
  | From: Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie>
  | 
  | Oisin Kim <oisin.kim at unison.ie> writes:
  | > Ps apologies for using windows/outlook to send this [ ... ]
  | 
  | Just as well you apologised :-)
  | 
  | Posting using a non-linux-compatible charset means I couldn't even
  | tell what currency you were quoting the price in!

 iconv(1) is your friend in situations like this:

   iconv  -f windows-1251  -t WHATEVER  FILE_WITH_STUPID_M$_ENCODED_MESSAGE

 where WHATEVER is the encoding you use (typically iso-8859-15 or
 maybe utf-8).

cheers!
        -blf-
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