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-={ Sunday, 03 July 2016, 14:02:33 +0200 }=-

Hey Russell!

 RT> keep this up please

An oldie but a goodie.  I've heard rumours that glibc-2.24 should be out soon
and promises a few fixes in the i18n department.  Not sure if there is anything
there specific to you but looking at South Africa I get;

--------------- vim commandline magic starts
:read ! locale -a | grep _ZA\.

af_ZA.iso88591
af_ZA.utf8
en_ZA.iso88591
en_ZA.utf8
nr_ZA.utf8
nso_ZA.utf8
ss_ZA.utf8
st_ZA.iso88591
st_ZA.utf8
tn_ZA.utf8
ts_ZA.utf8
ve_ZA.utf8
xh_ZA.iso88591
xh_ZA.utf8
zu_ZA.iso88591
zu_ZA.utf8
--------------- vim commandline magic ends

Note that for 8-bit they are all iso88591.

 RT> my inability to translate [ error free ] them to a nice format
 RT> like E-PUB,

The format is a whole other can of worms but the text should be easily doable
once the correct encoding is known.  If it actually is utf8 then it doesn't
require translation as long as the reader knows utf8 and has the correct fonts
onhand.

 RT> I would like to read on a Gallaxy Tab 4

From my research into Android based devices utf8 shouldn't be a problem.  As
for 8-bit, iso88591 is the most likely encoding.

Speaking of which, I don't think you got my routed netmail.  Care to set up a
direct connection?  I think that would be best all things considered.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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