Re: Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

Brian Dessent wrote: Yuck. Why don't you just use iconv instead? Cuz, I thought it was only a library? :-? Cuz I already know windows starts in UCS-2 and know the codepage for UTF-8 (65001). With iconv, I don't know off the top of my head where to look for what document that specifies the

Re: Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:58:15PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Linda Walsh wrote: >>Right now, to convert an NT text file in UCS-2 format, in bash, I use: >> >>mode.com codepage select=65001 reg export hklm\\software hklm-sw.reg5 >>cmd /c type hklm-sw.reg5 > hklm-sw-utf8.txt > >Yuck. Why don't yo

Re: Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

Linda Walsh wrote: > Right now, to convert an NT text file in UCS-2 format, in bash, > I use: > > mode.com codepage select=65001 > reg export hklm\\software hklm-sw.reg5 > cmd /c type hklm-sw.reg5 > hklm-sw-utf8.txt Yuck. Why don't you just use iconv instead? > What ever happened to the UTF-8

Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

Right now, to convert an NT text file in UCS-2 format, in bash, I use: mode.com codepage select=65001 reg export hklm\\software hklm-sw.reg5 cmd /c type hklm-sw.reg5 > hklm-sw-utf8.txt It isn't perfect -- any UCS-2 entries that are not valid UTF-16 won't get converted properly (since they don't