Adil Drissi wrote: > the result of echo $LANG is the following: en_CA.UTF-8 Then you don't need to change the locale. > 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. Do they look wrong if you read them as UTF-8? If all the characters are right then there is no problem. You should know that the program "file" can't really know the character encoding of a file. I suppose it reads the file and tries to guess the encoding. > I can code a bash script that can convert from us-ascii to utf-8 for all > the files of my website Converting from ASCII to UTF-8 is very simple: Just declare that it is UTF-8. UTF-8 is designed so that all ASCII characters are encoded the same way in ASCII and UTF-8, so you can take any ASCII text and treat it as UTF-8, and if you have a UTF-8 text that doesn't use any non-ASCII characters then it is in practice ASCII. Now, if a text is actually not 7-bit ASCII but one of the 8-bit encodings that are sometimes called "ASCII", then it needs to be transcoded to become UTF-8. > but for the files that don't show the current > encoding i don't know what to do. Open them and try different encodings. Try UTF-8 first, ISO 8859-1 second and ISO 8859-15 third. Then continue with other encodings. When you find one that makes the text look right, convert the file from that encoding to UTF-8. Björn Persson
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