17 Apr
2008
17 Apr
'08
3:59 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:54:45AM -0400, Max Hetrick wrote:
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Stephen Harris wrote:
It's mostly likely not an ASCII file; it's probably UTF16 or similar so there are two bytes for every character, but the high byte is 0x00 which shows as ^@.
I've seen strange characters in DOS files before.
DOS files typically have ^M characters at the end of each line and maybe a ^Z at the end of file. This is different to using an alternate character set.
What about running dos2unix on it?
The manual (at least on 4.5) doesn't specifically say it'll convert character sets. It might drop the \000 characters as it goes. *shrug*
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rgds
Stephen