Re: UTF-8 and changelog
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal
> locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog`
> returns 'ASCII text'. I tried
> `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then
> `file changelog.new` returns 'ASCII text' again, and diff shows no
> difference. Do I need to be doing this each time, or can I leave it be?
If the file is already plain ASCII (i.e. contains no top-bit-set
characters), then there is no difference between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8,
and you needn't worry. The procedure you just described demonstrates
that the file is indeed plain ASCII.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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