On Oct 27, 2009, at 19:28, ken wrote:
> E.g., create a file with vi with just one German/Greek/French word,
> say,
> Έντελέχεια (Entylecheia, an ancient Greek word). If the
> name of the
> file is "nonenglish", then, after you do your save in vim, run the
> shell
> commands
>
> touch temp; mv temp $(cat nonenglish)
I guess my issue is how these characters get generated in the first
place. By cutting and pasting the word "Έντελέχεια" from
your email into a file on Linux (via the Synergy mouse & keyboard
sharing utility no less), I was able to create a file containing that
word and also named that word and display it correctly with cat and
ls. So UTF-8 encoding appears to work just fine. It's 8-byte
characters in ISO 8859-1 encoding that are causing my problem.
Fortunately, I think I don't have to deal with ISO 8859-1 encodings,
and my problem was self-created by cutting and pasting characters
from the iso_8859-1 man page.
Now I have a follow up question: so far I've only been able to enter
non-ASCII characters on my Linux system by cutting & pasting; how do
I actually generate any of these characters on a system with a US
keyboard?
Thanks for all that have helped me solve this problem.
Alfred
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