Lucky girl boy (thanks particle). If I happened to get a (OK, 30 is too much) 10 years old text in Czech I'm sure I'd at least had to go and search for a charset convertor. And if I'd be lucky I would 1) find out what charset is the text in and 2) be able to find a convertor that still knows that charset.
If on the other hand I'd be unlucky the text would already be "converted" from a charset it's not in. I once wasted several days trying to find out why the heck do the accentuated characters come out wrong only to find out the FoxPro ODBC drivers automaticaly "converted" the strings from cp852 to win1250 even though they were in koi8cs or something. And since I was not able to turn the automatic conversion off I had to convert back and then convert correctly. If the data could talk I'm not sure what would it say.
Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code
will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-- Rick Osborne
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