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mbp:Desktop alexus$ file $$.txt
235.txt: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
mbp:Desktop alexus$

Yet this isn't really ISO-8859 but 8859-5 (Russian).

The file opens up on Windows just fine (I can see Russian characters) but on a Mac I get either some unknown symbols or question marks.

Any solutions?

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Duplicate of ISO-8859-5 for MAC OS X on Super User. – Dori Oct 23 '10 at 1:40
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To suggest an answer we need to know which application you want to open this file in. Is it a command line application (aka vi or emacs on the command line) or is it another text editor (TextEdit, TextMate, Eclipse?) – eric Oct 25 '10 at 21:32
@Dori: Exact duplicate, and the one over there has an accepted answer... Should we just copy that answer verbatim and paste here? ;-) – Josh Dec 16 '10 at 22:52
@Josh - alexus should be the one to do that, but his account here shows no activity since posting this question. – Dori Dec 16 '10 at 23:43
@Dori: Yeah, I was half joking, I wouldn't do that as it would be plagiarism :-) – Josh Dec 16 '10 at 23:44
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closed as not a real question by mankoff, Robert S Ciaccio Jan 7 '11 at 7:51

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