From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: UTF-8 character encoding
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55da3c89-7419-060f-4370-7ed1ba2dd5e8@weilnetz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD8GWss253v-p+FjeonEqibr53v6wZRCQ+NWxBhb0LimQaM4sQ@mail.gmail.com>
Am 20.06.2018 um 20:09 schrieb Lee:
> I'm looking at
> https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint
> and it starts off with
> Use UTF-8 character encoding.
>
> How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8
> character encoding _without_ using file?
>
> for whatever it's worth:
> $ file unicode.html
> unicode.html: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text
>
> $ file test.c
> test.c: C source, ASCII text
>
> I used vi to create both files & I'd like to understand why file says
> one is ascii & the other is utf-8
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so that's fine.
The file command will report ASCII as long as your text does not contain
any non-ASCII characters. If you add some (for example ÃÃÃ), it should
report UTF-8.
Regards,
Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-21 7:20 Lee
2018-06-21 10:12 ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2018-06-21 10:39 ` Andrey Repin
2018-06-22 7:31 ` Lee
2018-06-22 17:30 ` Andrey Repin
2018-06-25 9:56 ` L A Walsh
2018-06-25 20:52 ` Lee
2018-06-26 21:39 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-06-27 9:31 ` Lee
2018-06-27 7:50 ` Michael Enright
2018-06-27 9:34 ` Lee
2018-06-21 18:49 ` Houder
2018-06-21 20:46 ` Houder
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