Convert special characters in text file

nyk · 01-05-2005, 03:04 PM

I have a textfile, that I exported from a database on mac os-X.

As it's always the problem with Mac, the german "umlaute" (ue, oe, ...) characters come out wrong. for example it says Abb�hl instead of Abbühl.

Is there something I can do to correct this? Is there some tool that could do the conversion?

Not now, John! · 01-05-2005, 03:20 PM

Kate supports multiple charsets. One that is used in your file should be supported. Try opening that file with Kate, with iso-8859-1 charset or some other.