• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>, "xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@x...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:31:45 -0500

At 02:43 PM 2/17/00 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a simple piece of software that takes text files in a
>> variety encoding and spits them back out in a different encoding?  I'm
>> pondering the any->UTF-8 problem in particular, but a general encoding
>> translator but would be an even better solution.
>
>tcs does this job, and is available in source code form at
>http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/unixsrc/tcs.shar.Z
>It's in ANSI C, but you need access to a Unix shell
>to unpack it.

Great!  Edward Zimmer sent the same suggestion.

Does anyone know of a Windows or Macintosh tool that does this?  Or a Java
tool?

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
Building XML Applications
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth
http://www.simonstl.com

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