Read iso-8859-15 charset? [SOLVED]

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#1

I’m using PHP to save a tabbed text file that contains accented characters:

Example:

INGRÉDIENTS : VINAIGRE, EAU, GRAINES DE MOUTARDE, SEL, CURCUMA, ÉPICES À  Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Î Ï Ô Û Ü

When I read from the file using Applescript, I get this:

INGR…DIENTS : VINAIGRE, EAU, GRAINES DE MOUTARDE, SEL, CURCUMA, …PICES ¿ ¬ ? « » …   À Œ œ ‘ € ‹

PHP can’t save the text as a Mac OS Roman charset (like Filemaker Pro can). It defaults to iso-8859-1 (I can choose to save it as iso-8859-15).

Is there any way to open this file in Applescript so I can retain those accented characters?

#2

There are various ways. One of the easier ones is using the TEC osax:

TECConvertText "c·spita" fromCode "ISO-8859-1" toCode "macintosh" --> "cáspita"

Pick it here: http://www.osaxen.com/tec.html

#3

Thanks, jj.

Can the TEC osax be used in OS 9? It’s hard to tell, every thing is is Japanese!

I do all my development in OSX, but it mostly gets put on OS 9 machines. So, any additions I use are ones available for both systems.

If not, what are some of the other (read: harder) ways of solving my problem?

D

EDIT: Nevermind, it seems to be working.

#4

Yes, it does exist even an old 68k version. :wink: