Re: linux keyboard encoding compatibility problem

On 14 Dec 2005 03:54:42 -0800, hultsfret
<no_one_reads_it@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using a fedora 3 system to log in on an old redhat server. I notice
> that the encodings don't match that is: Backspace is interpreted as C-h
> causing some a lot of trouble, and any system output containing special
> symbols (german umlauts for example) will be displayed as other
> symbols.
> I got also a big problem related to this when importing an mysql
> database that was dumped on an computer with different encoding,
> because all strings containing special symbols are corrupted.
> How can I find out which coding system I'm using? And how can I assure
> compatibility between both systems?
>
Use the "locale" command to see which locale you are using. Most modern
Linux systems use UTF-8 encoding by default, while older systems may use
ISO-8859-1 or other encodings depending on the language. You can
convert text files from one encoding to another with recode or iconv.


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