Re: windows1252-to-Unicode.sed

--- In sed-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Angus Leeming <angus.leeming@xxxx> 
wrote:

> Whilst this is of course nice, it's reinventing the wheel. Why not 
use
> proven products like "recode" by François Pinard 
>     http://directory.fsf.org/recode.html
> 
> or "iconv" by Ulrich Drepper
>     http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/iconv1.html
> 
> Both utilities work on Windows as well as on Linux and both have 
enormously
> powerful support form over 150 different encodings.

   I work under WinXP, 4NT, and Cygwin/bash. There are no precompiled 
binaries for either of these programs using the web sites you 
provided. I googled and didn't see precompiled binaries for XP on 
other sites, either.

   So I downloaded the source to recode, and four times I 
ran ./configure, without success. (Ran Cygwin's SETUP three times to 
get additional packages.) I'm still not sure what I'm missing. 
Punchline is, it wouldn't make or compile.

   My sed script works on a specific situation, it's clearly 
documented, and the user can easily see what's going on and change 
it. A program that won't compile isn't much good to me.

--
Eric Pement






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