[xinelo]

Hi,

When I configure my terminal, in "Terminal > Window Preferences > Monitor" I chose Unicode (UTF-8) as the character group encoding.

Now, I've got an xml file which seems to contain only ASCII text:

rc52:~$ file caca.xml
caca.xml: ASCII text, with no line terminators

If I translate any characters on the command line, I get an ISO file:

rc52:~$ perl -p -e 'tr/$,?/€,¿/' caca.xml > CACA.TXT
rc52:~/crp/txt/myAnn3 souto$ file CACA.TXT
CACA.TXT: ISO-8859 text, with no line terminators

So that I need to iconv the file in order to see the characters because all my editors and tools expect UTF files, not ISO.

Any ideas why this happens or how I can revert it?

Thanks, xinelo

[Tsilou B.]

You have to use perl's UTF-8 declaration to make perl work with UTF-8 encoded files.
Modify your script so that it looks like this:

perl -p -e 'use utf8;tr/$,?/€,¿/;' caca.xml > CACA.TXT

Then it will output a correctly encoded file.

[xinelo]

thank you Tsilou,

I didn't know this option. In fact I think it'll solve other problems that I had and I didn't know why.

cheers, xinelo