> On Oct 23, 2014, at 17:12, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:59:05PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> >>> ĸen - currently _suffering_ for his love of UTF-8 ;) >> >> I like UTF-8 also, but there are so many warnings in BLFS that I don’t use >> it on my laptop. > > Unless you use problematic (and very old) packages, I will suggest > that UTF-8 is the way to go, unless either of the following applies: > > (i.) you have a lot of text files in legacy encodings > > (ii.) you subscribe to email lists where many people use a legacy > encoding > > For the hint, letters in English should not be a problem - perhaps > your editor program has used some sort of "smart quotes” ?
I think something like this might be the case. I encountered lots of interesting symbols when i opened it in vim. They were mostly associated with : ‘ and “. I’ve just sent it again and we’ll see how it works. If it’s not in 7-bit ASCII, I’m gonna have to figure out how to change it in vim. Dan -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
