-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIw5C9dE6C2dhV2JURAtVSAJ0VVaPae3DM7pCOOAT/2YsbBWI6RgCfdAFk yQghI8LnKC2WnqLKsY+MLtc= =dUWA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines