Hi!
I would like to know how you are currently handling the
conversion of you systems to UTF-8. Please share your
experience!
* Is there a program similar which can determine the
character set of a given text file? I know there is iconv
to convert character sets of text files. But I still
don't know a program which tells me if a given file is
encoded in ISO-8859-1, ISO-8869-15, a Windows code page,
etc.
* Which program are you using to convert you're ISO-8859-1
file systems (directory- and filenames - not the file
contents!) to UTF-8? Even better would be a program which
can convert from any encoding to UTF-8 (using a heuristic)
because my source filenames unfortunately have mixed
encodings: Most are ISO-8859-1 but some use various Windows
code pages).
I've written a small perl hack to do this but I'm not
very happy with it as it is because it doesn't have the
mentioned heuristic.
The gtk file selector has *lots* of trouble with some of my
ISO-8859-1 filenames and becomes unusable. My current
workaround is to start the respective program in a LANG=C
environment).
* I'm not sure how I am supposed to handle all my text files.
All of them are using ISO-8859-1 right now. But now that
I'm using Red Hat 8 I'm never sure if the text editor
saves them in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. Did you convert all
your files to UTF-8 or are you using both character
encodings?
* What about other non-UTF-8-aware machines accessing my
files? File "formats" without a text encoding tag are
becoming really problematic now, aren't they?
* Some days ago Chris Kloiber mentioned the
unicode_stop ; setfont lat0-sun16
as a way to turn off unicode support in the console. I
still have problems with all umlaut keys because they
still generate two-byte codes (even if LANG is set to
de_DE.ISO-8859-1). Does it work for you?
* How to convert ID3 tags?
bye,
Karsten
PS: The non-working umlauts in pine with a WONTFIX bug status
is a major problem for me.
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Dipl.-Inf. Karsten Weiss - http://www.machineroom.de/knweiss
