Quoting Amit Roseberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi List. > I am interested to know what's the default encoding my system use (for > example when I am saving a file with vi). > Also, I am running a Java VM on my Linux box... What is the default > encoding the VM use? is it the same as the system's?
Hey Amit. What the default encoding is depends on the program and on the environment. If you're running your program from the shell, it will look at your locale variables, and mainly on the LC_CTYPE variable. If you run something from the system cron, it will take the system environment variables. As for vi, I'm a bit mystified about this myself - I removed UTF8 from every localization file in my system, and still vi opens up with a default file encoding of utf8. Each program has its own behaviour, however. Take vi - it has an encoding, and then, a file encoding. As it is, I changed the encoding to iso8859-8 in its vimrc. So when it reads a plain ascii file it assumes a file encoding of utf-8 and does a (useless) conversion. If, however, the file contains Hebrew characters in ISO8859-8, it interprets it as an unknown encoding, and loads it up just fine... Each program has such quirks. As for Java, I can't really help you. I'm not sure it relies on the system internationalization - I know it doesn't rely on the system timezone. My guess is that you have to save your preferred encoding in a properties file, load it within the program and change the encoding using the appropriate class and method. However, I'm not sure about this. Herouth ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
