Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 23:59:24 +0200 From: "Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas@post.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: guru@unixarea.de Subject: Re: vi(1) and ISO 8859-1 Message-ID: <trinity-377d302a-8822-473a-b563-ce9cc7238ad5-1554415164891@3c-app-mailcom-lxa08> In-Reply-To: <20190404190642.GA4609@sh4-5.1blu.de> References: <trinity-f25766ad-e745-4e70-98d1-52c0ba83fe56-1554398089214@3c-app-mailcom-lxa05> <20190404190642.GA4609@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2019 at 9:06 PM > From: "Matthias Apitz" <guru@unixarea.de> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: vi(1) and ISO 8859-1 [...] > Are you sure that the file is completely ISO-8859-1 encoded? Yes: > What does > file(1) says about $ file myfile myfile: ISO-8859 text > and what happens if you run it through iconv(1) > translating from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 into /dev/null, will iconv(1) do it > or complain? $ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 < myfile > /dev/null It completes successfully, exit status is 0. You can easily create such a file and reproduce this: just open vi(1), set the encoding with `:se fe=iso-8859-1', and just type a letter with an accent, like: hello ì If you save it and reopen it with vi(1), it will use UTF-8 by default and it won't be able to read the line with `ì', unless you again use `:se fe=iso-8859-1'. The correctness (and integrity) of the ISO 8859-1 encoding is also shown by hexdump: $ hexdump -C myfile 00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 0a ec 0a |hello...| 00000008 Where `ec' is `ì' in ISO 8859-1. Rocky > > matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 > Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub > 70 years of NATO - 70 years of wars (Jugoslavia, Afghanistan, Syria, ...) and 70 years > of war preparation against Russia. -- PEACE instead of NATO !
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