Re: locale encodings

[Troy Korjuslommi <tjk@tksoft.com>]

If you mean the locale data files, they have a line such as 
"% Charset: ISO-8859-1"
which tell you the charset.

It would indeed be a good idea to tell the files' maintainers to use
UTF-8 from now on. For now you can use iconv or uconv to convert them.
E.g. iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < file > newfile

Troy



On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 19:03 -0500, Steven Abner wrote:
> Hi,
>  Can you tell me what file format "cs_CZ", "sk_SK", "sv_SE" and "wo_SN" are encoded in? I was going to try
> to fix it for my use, but can't open in a normal editor. I was doing a design test when these files tripped a non-POSIX portable character set code in my scanf()'s isspace(). I think they might be ISO8859-2 but not sure. Normal editor claims it can't be
> open in UTF-8. I'd rather not second guess someone else's work, if I can. If it is  ISO8859-2, I'll just decode/encode me a
> UTF file to examine. Two other files have UTF8 encodings, which is no problem. Others do but weren't within scope of
> the trap (comment character to first word after). I am only trying to verify the file parser is picking up exact data, and hopefully
> not being corrupted by unusual codes, as some have been.
> Thanks,
> Steve
> pheonix@zoomtown.com
>