IBM Greek [Encoding Issue]

[ari]

Hello!

I'm trying open some txt files exported from an old version of 3b2 DTP software using IBM Greek encoding.

I've successfully opened these with BBEdit using the 'Greek (DOS)' Encoding option.

My current workflow is opening them in BBEdit reopening them using 'Greek DOS' and saving them as xhtml files. Then they work fine in all programms.

I was wondering if I could do the same using oXygen directly, after searching a little bit in the forums and the manual I changed my preferences to using Arial Unicode MS and tried several different encodings including Cp869 (IBM Modern Greek), but it did not work.

I searched and found the following IBM Java encoding table:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... am0273.htm

my guess is I need Cp875 IBM Greek which wasn't available as an option or perhaps I'm just doing something wrong.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

[adrian]

Hello,

I believe that the "IBM Greek"/"Greek (DOS)" encoding is actually IBM737/Cp737. I found it listed here: http://www.ascii.ca/

Unfortunately I see that this encoding(Cp737) is not available in Oxygen. However, Oxygen is a Java application and Java supports that encoding, so Oxygen should also support it. My guess is it's a bug in the Oxygen GUI that won't allow you to select that encoding(and a few others including Cp875).
I have logged this to our issue tracking tool to be resolved in a future version of Oxygen.

Java SE 6 Supported Encodings

Regards,
Adrian

[ari]

Thanks for the prompt reply!