On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 04:25, Karsten Weiss wrote: > > I would like to know how you are currently handling the > conversion of you systems to UTF-8. Please share your > experience! I've only had a few filenames to convert myself. It was fairly simple. Havoc posted a script to do it Interesting notes on the subject include: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/001965.html https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/001027.html > * 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. Uh... not really. That's what's wrong with locale-specific encodings: nothing about the file itself really indicates what encoding was used. The representation of the bytes changes based on the locale you're using when you edit the file. > * Which program are you using to convert you're ISO-8859-1 > file systems (directory- and filenames - not the file > contents!) to UTF-8? See the second message linked above. > * 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. All but the really basic editors should do the Right Thing and save in UTF-8 text. If you want to check, use "od -c" and see what bytes are used where you have non-ascii characters in your files. > * 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? Anything worth using understands UTF-8, AFAIK. > * How to convert ID3 tags? Good question; I've been working on the same thing. I'm testing a script that a friend of mine's been working on... nothing I'd really recommend at the moment. Most MP3 software just happily writes ISO-8859-1 characters. OGG Vorbis files don't seem to have the same problem. I think 'vorbiscomment' converts the encodings properly. > PS: The non-working umlauts in pine with a WONTFIX bug status > is a major problem for me. Use a better mailer (doesn't mutt support UTF-8?) or request that the pine maintainers fix it. The pine license sorta sucks, and I think it prevents Red Hat from fixing problems themselves. The same sort of thing is the reason that Red Hat doesn't ship qmail... :-/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
