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Encoding Follow-Up

By Yashima, on November 28th, 2003

The other day I had some trouble with weirdo encodings. No more though. This Re: iconv and UTF-8 encoding posting on a mailing-list brought me to the correct solution:

iconv -f IBM850 -t ISO-8859-1 -o fnord.txt stupid-input.txt

Now file fnord.txt outputs fnord.txt: ISO-8859 text, with very long lines, which is the desired result! And . . . → Read More: Encoding Follow-Up

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Christmas Coming

By Yashima, on November 28th, 2003

You just know it’s coming when you see the nice skin on go fish : Gonna dress you up in my love.

Also we are invited for this week-end to the famous Christkindlesmarkt of Nürnberg. I am not sure though this invitation isn’t more about meeting at the pub and drinking Irish Flags (lower . . . → Read More: Christmas Coming

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Cookie time

By Yashima, on November 27th, 2003

The last few evenings I spent baking different kinds of cookies for december and christmas. I didn’t make any last year and I am not sure about the year before. But this year I even made the famous ‘Zimtsterne’ (cinnamon almond star shaped cookies). My back is hurting like hell from about 5 evenings . . . → Read More: Cookie time

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encodings

By Yashima, on November 19th, 2003

So the data I receive to put into the database is in some weird encoding. a colleague said recode was the right tool to try to convert those nasty files.

apt-get install recode

First shock: recode is really complex to handle.

First nice hint from the manual:

recode -lf l1

gives you the . . . → Read More: encodings

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java and ssh

By Yashima, on November 12th, 2003

I need to access some remote files with a java program. The idea was not to use system calls. Now I am trying out java ssh implementations.

So j2ssh was the first I tested. I quit testing more. Because -it’s nearly undocumented, the few examples are rather complex and since none matches my . . . → Read More: java and ssh

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