custom database format - How to save as ANSI

[onocentaur]

I've been slowly going crazy trying to make a custom database view and it hasn't been working properly at all. Then I notice that it has to be saved as ANSI without BOM! I have been saving as UTF-8 (like WPS!). Anyway, I'm using ubuntu and gedit as my text editor and I don't know how to save in that file format, I can only find ISO standards, foreign types and UTF-8. Can anyone tell me how to save a text file as ANSI? Thanks!

[elborak]

If a file only contains characters in the ASCII range, UTF-8 will be identical to ASCII.

[onocentaur]

I need ANSI, not ASCII  

[markun]

with "iconv" you can convert from UTF-8 to MS-ANSI.

I've been slowly going crazy trying to make a custom database view and it hasn't been working properly at all. Then I notice that it has to be saved as ANSI without BOM!

What do you mean by a custom database view in ANSI? Is this rockbox related?

[onocentaur]

with "iconv" you can convert from UTF-8 to MS-ANSI.

Thanks. I'll try that.

What do you mean by a custom database view in ANSI? Is this rockbox related?

yeah, making my own database view layout with tagnavi_custom.config, see http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DataBase.

[onocentaur]

Right:
1)saving as WINDOWS-1252 in gedit works.
2)It is VERY IMPORTANT to have spaces in %strip = "". I have spent hours working this out, and all along I thought it was the file type still.