UTF-8 file + console

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 3/31/09, Maciej Milewski <milu at dat.pl> wrote:
> Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:15:33 Paul B. Mahol napisał(a):
>> On 3/31/09, Thomas Dickey <dickey at radix.net> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> >> On 3/31/09, Arek Czereszewski <arek at wup-katowice.pl> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I have php application in UTF-8 on server
>> >> > (in files are 4 languages: PL, SK, CZ and EN).
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there any chance to edit this files on console?
>> >> > Or should I edit files in Linux/Mac/Win editor with
>> >> > UTF support and upload then to server?
>> >>
>> >> You can edit them inside vim, but they will not be
>> >> displayed correctly.
>> >
>> > That might be a configuration issue rather than the program.
>> > ("EN" in particular ;-)
>>
>> Generally speaking FreeBSD console doesnt support UTF-8. So even if
>> program (in this case vim) supports UTF-8 it will not work.
> What about editing with vim and setting manualy fileencoding=utf8?
> Next time you open this file vim should know that it is utf8 file or am I
> wrong?

That questions is for vim list. And utf-8 support in vim is very well
documented.

-- 
Paul