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[Member sybok]

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@andfree:
Well, that’s embarrassing. I cannot find the option mentioned in the link (from May 2020) in my LO 7.4.5.
Encoding option is clearly present when importing a file into a LO Calc.

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I’ve got this:
echo 4fDv9PHd8OXpCurh9OHq8d7s7enz5wrz+evn7dzx6eEK4fXu5+zd7efyCurh9OHt3Ov58+fyCuM= | base64 -d | iconv -f ISO-8859-7 -t utf-8

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Which is translated to this:

prevent
precipitation
tubules
increased
consumption

So, try
iconv -f ISO-8859-7 -t utf-8 -c -o mg-greek.txt mg.txt
more mg-greek.txt

Words are carried away by the wind...

[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello andfree.

I suspect it’s a problem with missing fonts in antiX. Because I have the same problem, several languages are replaced by unrecognizable characters, especially languages that are not derived from Latin.

When I have a text file “.txt” in “pt_BR” language that was created in Windows Notepad and I have to open it in antiX, I first try to open it with Leafpad, if it doesn’t work I try to open it with Writer from LibreOffice, so I can copy the text and paste it into a new “.txt” file created by Leafpad in antiX.

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Olá andfree.

Eu desconfio que seja um problema de falta de fontes no antiX. Porque eu tenho o mesmo problema, pois vários idiomas são substituídos por caractereses irreconhecíveis, em especial dos idiomas que não são devivados do latim.

Quando eu tenho um arquivo de texto “.txt” em idioma “pt_BR” que foi criado no bloco de notas do Windows e tenho que abrir no antiX, eu tento primeiro abrir com o Leafpad, se não funcionar eu tento abrir com o Writer do LibreOffice, assim eu consigo copiar o texto e colar em um novo arquivo “.txt” criado pelo Leafpad no antiX.

[Member andfree]

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Thanks for the replies.

marcelocripe wrote:

When I have a text file “.txt” in “pt_BR” language that was created in Windows Notepad and I have to open it in antiX, I first try to open it with Leafpad, if it doesn’t work I try to open it with Writer from LibreOffice, so I can copy the text and paste it into a new “.txt” file created by Leafpad in antiX.

In my case, none of these tries worked.

sybok wrote:

I cannot find the option mentioned in the link (from May 2020) in my LO 7.4.5.
Encoding option is clearly present when importing a file into a LO Calc.

This is the case for my LO 7.4.5.1, too.

zblsv wrote:

echo 4fDv9PHd8OXpCurh9OHq8d7s7enz5wrz+evn7dzx6eEK4fXu5+zd7efyCurh9OHt3Ov58+fyCuM= | base64 -d | iconv -f ISO-8859-7 -t utf-8

αποτρέπει
κατακρήμνιση
σωληνάρια
αυξημένης
κατανάλωσης

That’s right.

zblsv wrote:

iconv -f ISO-8859-7 -t utf-8 -c -o mg-greek.txt mg.txt
more mg-greek.txt

It works. Many thanks.

[Member Robin]

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andfree wrote:

iconv -f ISO-8859-7 -t utf-8

Great it works finally for you. What zblsv succeeded with was exactly what I had suggested originally:

Robin wrote:

or try some of the ISO-8859-x encodings.

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[Member andfree]

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Robin wrote:

What zblsv succeeded with was exactly what I had suggested originally

You are right. Unfortunately, I had tried it in a different (wrong?) way:

$ iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=ISO-8859-7 mg.txt > mg1.txt
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0

Thanks for your help.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by andfree.

[Member Robin]

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andfree wrote:

(wrong?) way:

Yes. You want utf-8 as output (–to-code= or -t) on antiX. And you have to run the input (–from-code= or -f) through the avialable encodings, in order to check out whether one of them applies to your file. Then you’d have ended up with the very encoding zblsv has succeeded with.

No problem, we are all here to learn constantly.

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[Member andfree]

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Thanks, again.

Robin wrote:

You want utf-8 as output (–to-code= or -t) on antiX. And you have to run the input (–from-code= or -f) through the avialable encodings

You are right, again. I had tried all the ISO-8859-x series of encodings as output, not as input. Instead, this worked:

$ iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-7 --to-code=utf-8 mg.txt > mg1.txt

I wonder if zblsv tried one after another the ISO-8859-x series of encodings as input or he ended up with ISO-8859-7 another way.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by andfree.

[Member zblsv]

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andfree wrote:

I wonder if zblsv tried one after another the ISO-8859-x series of encodings as input or he ended up with ISO-8859-7 another way.

I have taken note of your words about the Greek language. ISO-8859-7 is the Greek encoding. Now I don’t remember any utility that could detect the language (by vowels and syllables) for decoding from the ISO-8859 series. Therefore I have been to translate… Excuse my Yandex-English.

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[Member andfree]

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zblsv wrote:

ISO-8859-7 is the Greek encoding.

So simple. Thank’s a lot.

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