On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:15:07PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Just a quick question about encoding changelog in utf-8. My normal > locale is iso-8859-1 (en_US or so, I guess), and `file changelog` > returns 'ASCII text'. I tried > `iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 changelog -o changelog.new`, but then > `file changelog.new` returns 'ASCII text' again, and diff shows no > difference. Do I need to be doing this each time, or can I leave it be?
If the file is already plain ASCII (i.e. contains no top-bit-set characters), then there is no difference between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8, and you needn't worry. The procedure you just described demonstrates that the file is indeed plain ASCII. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
