Samba and charset

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#1

Hello,

I had a Windows XP Pro set of ASCII text files that were copied to a Debian folder via Samba. All the accented characters worked fine. The Debian folder was copied to a v11 local folder via Samba as well. However, the accented characters did not show up. I suppose it is because of the charset set.

I had to modify the ASCII text files, which are .tex btw, to include the [utf8] definition and retype the accented characters. Is there anyway to solve this please?

Thank you,

André Luiz

#2

If you know what charset they were encoded in, you could use the recode program. My guess would be ISO8859 to UTF-8 conversion is needed.