Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by andrelop
Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Quoting Andre Luis Lopes (andrelop@debian.org):
> >
> > > Also, does it suffice to only use the command "file somechangelogfile"
> > > in order to check if the changelog is really in UTF-8 or should I be
> > > doing something else ?
> >
> > Maybe you could just type your changelogs as before, with ISO-8859-1
> > encoding and then "iconv --to utf-8" these files. "man iconv" for details.
>
> I thought about using it but I'm concerned about which kind of beast I
> would end up when re-converting a changelog to UTF-8. If a changelog is
> already in UTF-8 and I use a ISO-8859-1 locale *and* a ISO-8859-1 editor
> to edit it and then convert it back again to UTF-8, what would happen to
> the text which was already written in UTF-8 ? Would it be preserved as
> valid UTF-8 or would it be re-converted again ?
>
> I'm concerned my text written using ISO-8859-1 locale would end up being
> converted in UTF-8 (which is fine) but all the rest, which were already
> written in UTF-8, would be highly damaged and it would no more be valid
> UTF-8.
>
> Hmm, iconv does accept a -f option where one could give it a clue about
> the encoding the file being converted is currently using. This made me
> think that maybe iconv would not be able to handle converting changelogs
> written in two distinct locales (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) to UTF-8. Does
> someone know if this is the case ?
>
> > Another possibility is a general switch to UTF-8...Be prepared to
> > fight hard with lots of tools and send hieroglyphs to local mailing
> > lists for a while.. :-)
>
> I have already tried to do this previosly but I came to the conclusion
> that I was having much more problems comunicating with everyone else
> which were not using UTF-8 than I would like to have. Maybe switching
> completely to UTF-8 would be an option in the future, but not now.
$EDITOR changelog.new
iconv --to utf8 changelog.new
cat changelog >>changelog.new
mv changelog.new changelog
Or buy a new name with asci characters. :) I so prefer my von over
some öäüß'a`a stuff.
MfG
Goswin
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