Hi! I would like to know how you are currently handling the conversion of you systems to UTF-8. Please share your experience! * Is there a program similar which can determine the character set of a given text file? I know there is iconv to convert character sets of text files. But I still don't know a program which tells me if a given file is encoded in ISO-8859-1, ISO-8869-15, a Windows code page, etc. * Which program are you using to convert you're ISO-8859-1 file systems (directory- and filenames - not the file contents!) to UTF-8? Even better would be a program which can convert from any encoding to UTF-8 (using a heuristic) because my source filenames unfortunately have mixed encodings: Most are ISO-8859-1 but some use various Windows code pages). I've written a small perl hack to do this but I'm not very happy with it as it is because it doesn't have the mentioned heuristic. The gtk file selector has *lots* of trouble with some of my ISO-8859-1 filenames and becomes unusable. My current workaround is to start the respective program in a LANG=C environment). * I'm not sure how I am supposed to handle all my text files. All of them are using ISO-8859-1 right now. But now that I'm using Red Hat 8 I'm never sure if the text editor saves them in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. Did you convert all your files to UTF-8 or are you using both character encodings? * What about other non-UTF-8-aware machines accessing my files? File "formats" without a text encoding tag are becoming really problematic now, aren't they? * Some days ago Chris Kloiber mentioned the unicode_stop ; setfont lat0-sun16 as a way to turn off unicode support in the console. I still have problems with all umlaut keys because they still generate two-byte codes (even if LANG is set to de_DE.ISO-8859-1). Does it work for you? * How to convert ID3 tags? bye, Karsten PS: The non-working umlauts in pine with a WONTFIX bug status is a major problem for me. -- Dipl.-Inf. Karsten Weiss - http://www.machineroom.de/knweiss -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
