Patrick Dupre via users writes:
Hello,
Opnening a file with gedit I get
The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing
this file you could corrupt this document.
file says
ISO-8859 text
instead of
ASCII text
How can I identify which characters is not ASCII?
F
On Sat, 2025-08-02 at 15:17 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue
> editing this file you could corrupt this document.
Is the warning giving you an unnecessary scare?
Do you *need* it to be 7-bit ASCII?
Almost everything handles 8
> On 2 Aug 2025, at 14:17, Patrick Dupre via users
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Opnening a file with gedit I get
>
>
> The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this
> file you could corrupt this document.
>
> file says
> ISO-8859 text
This is an 8bit encoding.
On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM Patrick Dupre via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Opnening a file with gedit I get
>
>
> The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing
> this file you could corrupt this document.
>
> file says
> ISO-8859 text
>
thanks Todd
good to know!!
On Sat, Aug 2, 2025, 10:23 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2025 at 15:41, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
>
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: non ascii character
> D
On 2 Aug 2025 at 15:41, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:Re: non ascii character
Date sent: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 15:41:52 +0200
Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users
From: Patrick Dupre via users
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Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> I used
> grep -axv '.*'
>
> Seems OK
You might want to check what 'file -i /path/to/your/file'
reports. Running a quick test, it seems gedit (and the
newer Gnome text editor app) both do rather poorly when it
comes to opening files which are in another charset.
I used
grep -axv '.*'
Seems OK
Subject: Re: non ascii character
I might be wrong, but I thought I had seen online free apps that would allow u to upload docs and then strip out non ascii chars.
there might be apps that also highlight the non ascii chars
there might
I might be wrong, but I thought I had seen online free apps that would
allow u to upload docs and then strip out non ascii chars.
there might be apps that also highlight the non ascii chars
there might be editors that would edit non ascii, going from ascii to non
ascii
On Sat, Aug 2, 2025, 9:
Hello,
Opnening a file with gedit I get
The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this
file you could corrupt this document.
file says
ISO-8859 text
instead of
ASCII text
How can I identify which characters is not ASCII?
Thank
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