Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: >> >> Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, >> how do I determine their current encoding? > > Just a thought: > > $ touch äöüß.éèâ > > $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ > -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ > > $ ls -1 > filelist > > $ file filelist > filelist: UTF-8 Unicode text, with escape sequences >
For me the output of file is different and does not include the encoding information. $tree /backup_halo_system_files_20070216 > filelist $file filelist filelist: ASCII text ls -al, ls -1 etc., also give the same result. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]