Upon further investigation, I am not so sure that the problem comes from a BOM. More probably, since I'm only using vi(1) to edit my (plain)text files in general, I need to be able to specify the encoding/charset on the fly. Is that doable ? Should I update my game and use vim ? Out of curiosity, what do you obsd devs and users favour ? What's your text editor of choice ?
Seeminlgy if I used vim I would only have to specify a `:set fileencoding=utf-8' configuration option. I like the simplicity of vi and prefer not to use syntax highlighting but rather proper code formatting and indentation. (replying a bit late to my own email because I didn't get the replies due to my change of email address. Oh and sorry for the HTML formatting) Le Jeudi 30 Janvier 2025 09:30 CET, sylv...@saboua.me <sylv...@saboua.me> a écrit: > > I have a folder with several standalone .txt files on my webserver. > I expect these to be displayed as such. But when opening them > in the browser, either locally (from the same machine) or from > remote, several characters such as accents and em dashes get > replaced by other characters. > > Where could this be coming from ? Searching online for a similar > problem I gather that this could have to do with the presence of a > Byte-Order Mark (BOM). If so, is there a handy command on openbsd > that allows to delete it from the txt file if present ? -- Sylvain Saboua
