Re: question about encoding

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 16:18:48 +0100, Axel wrote:
> >
> But I don' t know the encodings and strings I can use with that call.
> API don' t talk about them
> setting encoding of io channel , then read, and then convert to utf 8  
> should work
> but first I need to know what encoding and string to pass to the 
> function I can
> use to set GIOChannel
> 

Try "iconv --list". I think these are the encodings you can
use.

If your file just has characters like ай and so on, there's
a good chance it's ISO8859-1.

Noah