Am 20.06.2018 um 20:09 schrieb Lee: > I'm looking at > https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint > and it starts off with > Use UTF-8 character encoding. > > How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8 > character encoding _without_ using file? > > for whatever it's worth: > $ file unicode.html > unicode.html: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text > > $ file test.c > test.c: C source, ASCII text > > I used vi to create both files & I'd like to understand why file says > one is ascii & the other is utf-8 > > Thanks, > Lee
ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so that's fine. The file command will report ASCII as long as your text does not contain any non-ASCII characters. If you add some (for example ÄÖÜ), it should report UTF-8. Regards, Stefan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
