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From: sb463ba@d250-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: Wide_String, Chinese & Japanese text files
Date: 1999/08/25
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Date: 1999-08-25T00:00:00+00:00
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Florian Weimer (fw@s.netic.de) wrote:
: "Thierry Lelegard" <lelegard@club-internet.fr> writes:

: > Does anyone have some pointers to these standards and to some
: > simple free text utilities which can create a few sample
: > text files with a US or European keyboard on UNIX (for
: > test purpose, not production of course).

Rob Pike's Editor sam writes UTF8-Textfiles; there is also a Windows
version that comes with a sample document showing three or four languages
from around the world. (look for sam.exe)

the utility tcs transforms from one encoding to another.
ftp://plan9.att.com/plan9/unixsrc/tcs.shar.Z

At least on the debian GNU sites, you can find the UNIX versions.

-# Georg