character sets- missing feature?

Kjetil Rå Hauge k.r.hauge at east.uio.no
Wed Oct 1 02:21:01 EDT 2003


>In Revolution how can I display text with 
>foreign character sets? Not Unicode. For example 
>this text file is ISO-8859-2 (Central European 
>ISO Latin 2)
><http://www.northshorecomputer.net/pg/etext04/rnpz810.txt>
>
>In Apple TextEdit, I can select "Central 
>European ISO Latin 2" while open that file and 
>it displays what appear to be the correct 
>characters.
>
>Rev's MacToISO and ISOToMac functions, while 
>useful, seem to fall short of dealing with many, 
>many text encodings out there. Hopefully I am 
>overlooking something. I fear I will have to 
>write an external to do this :-/
>


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