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[Goofy]

hello all

As everyone, I still have encoding problems from time to time. Even if I can avoid most of them by experience, I am very ignorant about ANSI, UTF8 (to which I have a superstitious fervor) and whatsoever weird things
Sometimes I am proud to find the bug and to have spent hours for a "&" in a locale file..
Sometimes I am ashamed of having destroyed the ja-JP locale of a babelZillian friend, just with opening/closing a file with Pspad set for UTF8

So... Some of you seem to know much about that, some others are real hackers, some are dedicated to sorcery code ...

so please post your tricks and tips and knowledge here !

[victory]

this is just a passing idea though..

when we include Japanese characters into *.propaties files,
we should encode those file using native2ascii(or something like this) after edit, before zip.
can't you use this for adding some sentence into multi-byte files?

native2ascii -encoding utf-8 native-file ascii-file
native2ascii --reverse ascii-file native-file

only adding after its content, you can use redirect, of course.


other?
use binary editor for merging your sentence, in conjunction with favorite text editor :-)
try xyzzy :-)

in fact, I edited using binary editor when I edited http://www.bugzilla.org/download/
because that file has numerous characters.