On Sat, 1 May 2010 20:38:56 +0900, Kino <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >On May 1, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Hamid Haji wrote: > >> On 29.04.2010, at 15:37, Kino wrote: [...] >Anyway, if you have Xcode Tools installed, ... > >1. Download Encode-Detect-1.01.tar.gz from > <http://search.cpan.org/~jgmyers/Encode-Detect-1.01/>; > >2. Unzip it; > >3. Open Terminal and change the current directory to "Encode-Detect-1.01"; > >4. Run the following commands one by one: > >perl Makefile.PL >make >make test >sudo make install [...] Did all that and ran the macro on an Arabic (Windows) test file of 20 pages. The conversion is instantaneous. Thank you. >As I wrote above Encode::Detect does not help. Try the macro below instead. ><http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/files/NWPro/arabic/OpenArabicTextFiles_nwm.zip> > [...] Hamid