On 5/6/13 12:29 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 08:55:29PM -0400, Tyro[17] wrote:
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Which reminds me... how does one create a utf-8 encoded file at the
shell prompt?
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Depends.
That it does. I will need to be more specific when asking questions as
Jonathan suggested.
On Linux, most modern versions of VI and EMACS support utf-8 natively,
it's just a matter of setting up the default settings. For bash, cat,
grep, and friends, it's just a matter of setting up a UTF-8 locale on
the system (or for a single user, but if you can, might as well make it
default on the whole system). Then use a terminal like rxvt-unicode to
actually see the characters, and setup XKB to international key
composition to actually type Unicode characters, and you're good to go.
I use nano and was actually talking creating UTF-8 encoded files in that
editor. Badly stated question. Thanks for he pointers though. I actually
learned something form them.
(Note: most modern distros should have all of the above setup by default
already. You really only need to do it manually when upgrading from an
older system.)
On Windows... I have no idea. Haven't used it for anything significant
for over a decade now. :-P
No issues there. I'm using MAC OSX and and Ubuntu
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Thanks,
Andrew
