On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:07:08PM -0200, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > 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 ? It would be re-converted. You would need to either convert the file to ISO8859-1 before editing and then convert back to UTF-8, or do all your editing in UTF-8 directly. > 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. At least for email, a good mail reader should honor character sets and be capable of auto-converting. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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