I'm using Eclipse in Ubuntu to edit PHP files.
But, unfortunately, some of these PHP files were created in Notepad++ in Windows XP, with ANSI encoding defined.
Also, these files generates HTML codes with charset=ISO-8859-1.
When I configured Eclipse to ISO-8859-1, many special characters were lost and changed to '???', and when I try to save a file with ISO enconding, Eclipse displays an error that was not possible to save the file because some characters aren't compatible with the charset.
How can I save these files without changing the encoding, or how can I change the encoding without lose characters.
To the point, you need to read those files using ANSI encoding and then write those files using ISO-8859-1 encoding. In Notepad++ you can change the encoding by Format menu option. Unfortunately there's no ISO-8859-1 option, but UTF-8 should suffice and is nowadays also the preferred choice for world domination since the ISO-8859-1 encoding only covers latin characters, not for example Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Arabic, etcetera.
By "ANSI" do you mean "Windows code page 1252"?
In either case, once you figure out the source encoding you can use iconv to convert from that encoding to UTF-8.
The latest version can CONVERT between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 without loosing info.
version 5.6.8 is able to do so.
