Hi François, Thank you for your answer. the result of echo $LANG is the following: en_CA.UTF-8 I want the web pages i develop to fully support french. The tag in html is must of course. But i want the file to be encoded in UTF-8. Before when i was using windows i was an editor that allows to save in utf-8. Now after modifying some files using vi, vim or kate, i am finding that some files are encoded in us-ascii, some others don't show the type of encoding, so i'm really lost. I can code a bash script that can convert from us-ascii to utf-8 for all the files of my website but for the files that don't show the current encoding i don't know what to do. Please help --- On Sun, 9/7/08, François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Character encoding > To: adil.drissi@xxxxxxxxx, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 8:28 AM > -----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
