<div>On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Peter Dyballa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Peter_Dyballa@web.de">Peter_Dyballa@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<div class="im"><br></div>If really all text is ISO 8859-6, i.e., the 7-bit codes are Latin and AC-F2 are Arabic, then just convert the file's contents from ISO 8859-6 to UTF-8!</blockquote></div><div> </div><div>This seems to work, but keeps hitting snags where I get the error 'illegal input sequence'. It's triggering on a symbol it's already translated earlier in the document, so I'm not really sure what's going on.</div>
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Ulrike Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:news3@nililand.de">news3@nililand.de</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Converting everything to utf8 is certainly the easiest. You can also<br>
try \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1256" at the start of the files which use<br>
your code page.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>the \xetexinputencoding just produces a mess, sadly. I tried both cp1256 and ISO 8859-6 with it. </div><div><br></div><div>Are there other ways to convert it to utf8? This is the best lead I've had so far.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Lomky</div></div><br>