Re: Character encoding

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Le 07.09.2008 04:39, Adil Drissi a écrit :
Hi,

Thank you for your answer. I want to use this in my personal
computer. Can you give me the name of the variable please? Say I will
set that variable to UTF-8 in /etc/profile, do you think that vim
will always save my files in utf-8 format?

First: what is the result of this command on your computer:

echo $LANG


Another thing, a lot of editors allow to choose the text encoding
format, and that what i want to be set by default to utf-8. I know
that in my html code i have to set manually.

There is a little confusion here: the way a text editor encore the
characters and the language you want to type with your text editor have
(almost) no relation together: you can type html text in latin1 or in
utf8....



In some file systems it's possible to specify the character
encoding of a file as an attribute, but I've never seen it used.
HTML can contain a meta tag that specifies the encoding, like this:


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

I don't understand what is meant here: this tag is for server use, not
for the text editor used to edit the html file.

o is there a way to convert this file to UTF-8
Once you know the current encoding, transcoding won't be a big
problem. If the encoding is specified in the file, such as in a
meta tag, then you'll have to change that too.

iconv -f <source encoding> -t <target encoding> your-file

example: convert from latin1 to utf8:

iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 your-file


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