Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] List of authors in about dialog, need some help

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 01:51:26 +0200
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:42:57PM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> >1 Convert AUTHORS file to UTF-8 (it looks like more and more Linux distros
> > are moving to UTF-8 as default encoding, don't know about the BSDs and
> > commercial UNIXes).

> I'd prefer solution 1 too, as the underlying Glib seem's also to be 
> preferring utf8.
> However, as I don't have very much knowledge of character encodings, I 
> don't know what the right solution would be best.

I've converted the AUTHORS file from iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and checked it in.
One of the many ways to do this is to use iconv.

 Ciao
     Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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