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Hamid Haji <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 1 May 2010 09:23:42 -0400
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On Sat, 1 May 2010 21:50:20 +0900, Kino <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On May 1, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Hamid Haji wrote:
[...]
>> Did all that and ran the macro on an Arabic (Windows) test file of 20 pages.
>> The conversion is instantaneous.
>
>Strange. Do you mean, with Encode::Detect installed, OpenTextFiles macro
translated a Windows Arabic file properly? I got
>
>	Perl reported an error:
>	Unknown encoding: x-mac-cyrillic at
/Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Encode/Detect.pm line 54.
>
>which means that the detector thought my test file to be encoded in
MacCyrillic and Encode module did not understand "x-mac-cyrillic". The file
in question is "Arabic-win.txt" in
><http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/temp/arabicfiles.zip>
>
>Perhaps hasn't your test file already converted into UTF-8?
[...]
No. It is Arabic (Windows) file. I also had no problem converting your text
file "Arabic-win.txt".

Hamid

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