X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <17784738.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:57:03 -0700 (PDT) From: gmarsha11 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: gary.marshall@hp.com References: <17764646.post@talk.nabble.com> <484EFB14.65C9E56F@dessent.net> <17766865.post@talk.nabble.com> <20080610233030.GB18434@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> <17767635.post@talk.nabble.com> <20080611011758.GD18434@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> <17780262.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Mark J. Reed-2 wrote: > > So pipe the files through iconv to something your munging tools can > deal with and then through iconv again to change it back to whatever > DP is using.. > > > Looks like that's what I'll have to do. It's a minor inconvenience, but doable. It's too bad that the tools won't handle Unicode and that DP (apparently) can't be configured to use alternate encoding methods. Incidentally, DP only uses Unicode in Windows. In Unix, it uses ASCII. The problem with "standards" is that there are so darn many of them! ;-) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Extra-spaces-in-text-files-in-cygwin-tp17764646p17784738.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/