vi(1) and ISO 8859-1

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, April 04, 2019 a las 07:14:49PM +0200, Rocky Hotas escribió:

> Hello!
> I have an ISO-8859-1 text file, which is opened and shared by several OSs.
> If I open it with vi(1) in FreeBSD 12.0, its encoding is not detected and
> UTF-8 is used, instead. Any non-ascii character will be read and written
> incorrectly in UTF-8, creating an ambiguous encoding.

Are you sure that the file is completely ISO-8859-1 encoded? What does
file(1) says about and what happens if you run it through iconv(1)
translating from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 into /dev/null, will iconv(1) do it
or complain?

	matthias
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