Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008, Mumia W.. wrote:

> >>My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her
> >>to read.  First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I
> >>do no run OO) although I could get the jist.  I then suggested that she
> >>send plain text.

> That seems to be in Microsoft code page 1250 (cp1250). Install 'recode'
> and do this:
>
> recode cp1250..ascii < email.txt

Thanks, I had an "ambiguous" error re linefeeds and just tried the other cp's and found that cp1258 works fine.

thanks.

Douglas A. Tutty @porchlight.ca