CORRECTION - Re: [ILUG] Editing unicode text files.

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:12:58 +0100
  | From: Brian Foster <blf at blf.utvinternet.ie>
  |[ ... ] 
  |  I concur with Kae's point here:  Until you can simply
  |  cat(1) the file and see what you _should_ see, things
  |  are not set up correctly.  [ ... ]

 apologies, that isn't quite what I meant to say:
  if the files in question are UTF-16, then on a
 typical Linux system (often UTF-8 nowadays), the
 above check clearly “won't work”.  the above test
 is best applied when the terminal's encoding is
 compatible (read: identical unless you know what
 you are doing) with the file's.

 however, as Kae has pointed out, vim(1) at least
 should be able to deal with the situation even if
 the files are, as I (now) suspect, UTF-16LE (esp.
 if you are using a UTF-8 terminal window).

cheers!
	-blf-
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