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Re: UTF-8 character encoding
Greetings, Lee!
> I'm looking at
> https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint
> and it starts off with
> Use UTF-8 character encoding.
> How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8
> character encoding _without_ using file?
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/
> for whatever it's worth:
> $ file unicode.html
> unicode.html: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text
> $ file test.c
> test.c: C source, ASCII text
> I used vi to create both files & I'd like to understand why file says
> one is ascii & the other is utf-8
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, June 21, 2018 4:25:27
Sorry for my terrible english...
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