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From: Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: UTF-8 character encoding
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 07:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD8GWss253v-p+FjeonEqibr53v6wZRCQ+NWxBhb0LimQaM4sQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-21  7:20 Lee [this message]
2018-06-21 10:12 ` Stefan Weil
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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