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Revision as of 10:04, 2 December 2008
I am using Windows 2000, US system. I have a bunch of text files coming from a DOS machine (OEM charset), with characters above code 127. I would like to convert those files into ANSI charset, so that I can see those characters appropriately everywhere under Windows.
Open the file in Vim and enter these commands:
:set encoding=cp437 :set fileencoding=latin1 :wq
You can now reopen the file and the characters should have been converted. I prefer to quit after the conversion so that encoding and fileencoding are reset, but I supopse you can simply set encoding back to latin1.
cp437 is the code page for the OEM charset.
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Did the same to transform UNICODE (UTF-8) to Latim-1 (ISO-8859-1) and it worked.
I recommend to anyone having trouble understanding these encodings to read the following article:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html