reading text files on Bubugao?

[tooironic]

When I first got my Bubugao I tried uploading some Chinese text files to read on the train. Unfortunately, regardless if I saved it as "Unicode", "Unicode big endian" or "UTF-8", none of them were able to be opened - they merely displayed gibberish characters, or none at all. Does anyone know how to save these the right way? I'm using Windows Vista (English Version); my Bubugao is V2.4. Thanks.

[msittig]

Have you tried saving it as GB2312? I've found that a lot of Chinese soft/hardware is late to jump on the Unicode bus.

Edited January 22, 2010 at 03:49 PM by msittig
Adding a link.

[tooironic]

And how does one do that? I see no option for it in Notepad.

[msittig]

I looked around for a quick way to do it online, but there doesn't seem to be any.

[msittig]

The WPS word processing software can convert utf-8 to gb2312.

1. Open a utf-8 text file.

2. File > Save As... (文件 > 另存为)

3. "OK"

4. Change 编码 to "ANSI/OEM 简体中文 GBK"

5. "OK"

And you have a gb2312 version of the original text file.

Probably MS Word can do this too but I don't have it installed on this computer.

[roddy]

Notepad on XP has an ANSI option which I think should work, but not sure if it's on vista. I suspect that using Word to save as a .txt file might do the trick also. Where are these files actually coming from?

Edited January 23, 2010 at 01:47 PM by roddy

[imron]

Notepad on XP has an ANSI option which I think should work,

Possibly. You should probably make sure your default locale for non-Unicode applications is set to Chinese (P.R.C) just to make sure.