-symbolSet
(As of 3.0.002.03)
Specify the symbol set (codepage) that the incoming data is in.
Syntax
-symbolSet codepage
Description
Inform Merge which codepage the xml data stream is in. This is unlikely to be useful since xml files state their encoding explicitly. If the xml "lies" by providing non-UTF-8 data but leaves out the encoding specification, thereby implicitly defining it as being UTF-8, then this option would be useful.
Note that specifying the -symbolset option to a filter (not Merge itself) can be very useful.
codepage is the name of the codepage the data is in. The list of available codepages is large. You can see that list by running:
uconv -l // that's a lowercase 'ell'
uconv is in the .../DO/Bin folder of your installation.
cp1252 and cp850 are popular choices.
