[ILUG] Editing unicode text files.

[Kae Verens]

Aine Douglas wrote:
>
>>  Editors that can handle the full UCS/Unicode in a variety
>>  of encodings include vim(1), mined, and yudit.  Some other
>>  editors, such as joe(1), handle UTF-8 but not necessarily
>>  an arbitrary encoding.
>
> On my shell account, I have vim and joe, both render garbage. Will get
> mined and yudit later and test.
>
vim is usually quite good about that - as long as the console can 
display the characters, it should work okay. I just opened up the 
Russian language file for KFM in vi and vim, and both worked fine. This 
was in Konsole; KDE's terminal emulator. I have had trouble with 
charsets in xterm and many other terms, so make sure that's not a 
problem first.

Also, UTF-8 files, which I presume you're talking about, usually start 
with a single marker character to distinguish them from 
otherwise-plain-text files. If that marker character is missing, vim may 
not be figuring out the charset correctly.

Kae