Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:53:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> Alternatively there is a good chance that Emacs can do this

Not yet; perhaps in the next version (someone works on adding Unicode 
support).  Emacs does support almost any other imaginable encoding of 
non-ASCII text on Earth, though...

> (that's how I do it: I have my editor set up so I can enter strings
> as 16 bit Unicode and then hit a keyboard shortcut to shell out to
> textconv, which replaces them with a UTF-8 version of whatever I
> typed).

The GNU recode utility should be able to do that (and a lot of other 
conversions as well).