Thomas asked about editing SAMBA shares that have Roman-8 characters
to which Lars replied ...

>Does anybody know a nice PC editor able to handle different character
>sets? [ snip ]

<plug>

Yes, I know of one -- Qedit for Windows.  Unfortunately, Qedit for
Windows is not smart enough to do the necessary translations for local
files (which is what files on a SAMBA server would look like to QW).
QW is a client/server editor and a local editor.  If you use QW in
client/server mode, it will correctly do all the necessary
translations for Roman-8 to Windows characters sets (and the other way
around).  This is possible because Qedit on the server "knows" that it
is dealing with Roman-8 characters.

At some future time, I believe that we could add an option to Qedit
for Windows to say "when you open this local file, assume that the
character set is Roman-8".  We would then have to do the necessary
translations at the appropriate moments.  We don't have any short-term
plans to add such a feature to Qedit for Windows.

For now, you would have to open the host document, select all of it,
copy it to the clipboard, paste it into a local Qedit for Windows
document, and then save this.  The resulting file would have Windows
characters and not Roman-8 characters, so you could then edit the file
using MS Word, Notepad, or even Qedit for Windows.

</plug>

This doesn't really answer Thomas' original question, but it does give
an answer to Lar's question :-).

Cheers,

David    <[log in to unmask]>