David Starner wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:44:14AM -0400, D. Dale Gulledge wrote: > > is saved the same way. So I guess my question is whether there is > > already a tool out there that will tell me whether a file is UTF-8 or > > ISO 8859. > > Recent versions of file. It's not 100%, but unless all you have is > Nestle'(r) (in iso-8859-1) in the file, it should get it right.
I tried it. For the files I have `file' correctly distinguished between UTF-8 and 8859. It is not able to determine which flavor of 8859, but I expected that. -- D. Dale Gulledge, Sr. Programmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] C, C++, Perl, Unix (AIX, Linux), Oracle, Java, Internationalization (i18n), Awk. - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
