On Yaum al-Arbi'a 06 Rabi` al-Thaani 1425 09:30 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > yes all of them use unicode but let me ask you all something, can any one > > display the attached file in any editor besides vim? It should contain > > U00D9 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE) > > NO, THEY ARE NOT. Your file is in ISO 8859-1 (aka Latin1) > encoding. Vim autodetects that and handles it, gnome-terminal > and konsole simply don't understand it. > > Try "file konsole_bug" and it will tell you:
Thank Behdad, Now I think I understand the whole story. $ cat arabic Ù Ù Ù Ù Ù Ù $ hexdump arabic 0000000 a0d9 d90a 0aa1 a2d9 d90a 0aa3 a4d9 d90a 0000010 0aa5 0000012 $ file arabic arabic: UTF-8 Unicode text $ cut -b1 arabic| tee cutted_arabic|hexdump 0000000 0ad9 0ad9 0ad9 0ad9 0ad9 0ad9 000000c $ file cutted_arabic cutted_arabic: ISO-8859 text In summary, when some bytes are cut from a utf-8 file, the bytes remained are not a valid utf-8 bytes sequence and hence the "file" utility response. > Vim autodetects that and handles it, gnome-terminal > and konsole simply don't understand it. I tried to open an ISO-8859-6 file using vim to test this autodetection feature of vim but it was garbage. Why? -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
