Hi, Thank you for your answer. I want to use this in my personal computer. Can you give me the name of the variable please? Say I will set that variable to UTF-8 in /etc/profile, do you think that vim will always save my files in utf-8 format?
Another thing, a lot of editors allow to choose the text encoding format, and that what i want to be set by default to utf-8. I know that in my html code i have to set manually. Thank you --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Björn Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Björn Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Character encoding > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for > using Fedora." <fedora-list@redhat.com> > Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:56 PM > Adil Drissi wrote: > > I want to know what is the encoding type of a file. So > i run this command: > > "file --mime index.php". The output is : > index.php: text/html > > > > But this does not give any character encoding type. > > > > I would like to convert this file to UTF-8 but the > command convmv cannot be > > run without specifying the type of the file with -f > option i think. > > There is no general way to find out the character encoding > of a random piece > of data. Some encodings are fairly easy to recognize but > the numerous > eight-bit encodings can be difficult to tell apart. The > character encoding > must always be specified somewhere if it isn't > implicitly known. > > In some file systems it's possible to specify the > character encoding of a file > as an attribute, but I've never seen it used. HTML can > contain a meta tag > that specifies the encoding, like this: > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" > content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > > If the HTML file is served by an HTTP server, then the > server can specify the > encoding in the Content-Type header, and there are rules > that define what the > encoding is if the server doesn't specify it. > > You could open the file in a browser that lets you choose > the encoding, and > try an encoding that you think it may be. Then proofread > the text. If all the > characters are right, then you guessed right, or close > enough to work for > that particular file. If not, try the next encoding. > > > o is there a way to convert this file to UTF-8 > > Once you know the current encoding, transcoding won't > be a big problem. If the > encoding is specified in the file, such as in a meta tag, > then you'll have to > change that too. > > > or better how to set the default character encoding to > utf-8? > > Default in what context? The locale settings in the > environment include a > character encoding. Many programs assume that text files > and filenames are > encoded in that encoding, but some programs think > they're smarter and assume > something else. (The approach with environment variables > will of course fail > if different users use different locales and access the > same files.) > > Björn Persson -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines