28 Oct
2009
28 Oct
'09
2:13 p.m.
On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:59, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
If your locale is UTF8, íéèæøå would be multibyte characters.
If your characters are one byte only, they are not UTF-8.
That was the key: the file was not UTF-8.
vim knows how to handle this correctly:
Yes, it apparently does. It almost appears to be magic how it figures this out...
If you open the file with vi (you would see the text [converted] on the bottom line), and do:
:set fileencoding=utf-8
and write out the file again it should be converted so that cat displays it correctly.
Yes, it certainly does. Thanks for the tip. I guess I have a lot to learn about encodings...
You can use the convmv script to convert filenames into utf-8 (yum install convmv).
I will check this out!
Thanks, Alfred