[CentOS] Text file encoding

I'm working with some people using apple laptops. When we share text 
files (latex files), I reach in an encoding problem on our CentOS 
laptops and desktops. In my favorite editor, "é" is "<8e>", "à" is 
"<88>" etc...
Of course, I can change the encoding with iconv:

    iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib
    iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t MACINTOSH file.bib >file.bib.mac

But it is a little tedious to work like this...

Runing pdflatex (in CentOS) on these files written on apple laptops 
works fine with

    \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}


So the main problem is an editor problem. I've tried several ones 
(nedit, gedit, kate, vim...) none of them seams to support this 
encoding. But may be it is a configuration problem ?

Any idea ?

Thanks

Patrick