Re: locale encodings

[Keld Simonsen <keld at keldix dot com>]

Well, the encoding of the source coode of all locales should be 7-bit ascii, for
maximum portability. Then the target encoding should be recorded via the 
% charset specification, which gives a list of possible charsets, comma separated.
UTF-8 should always be included there, but other encodings should also be available.

best regards
keld

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Troy Korjuslommi wrote:
> If you mean the locale data files, they have a line such as 
> "% Charset: ISO-8859-1"
> which tell you the charset.
> 
> It would indeed be a good idea to tell the files' maintainers to use
> UTF-8 from now on. For now you can use iconv or uconv to convert them.
> E.g. iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < file > newfile
> 
> Troy
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 19:03 -0500, Steven Abner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Can you tell me what file format "cs_CZ", "sk_SK", "sv_SE" and "wo_SN" are encoded in? I was going to try
> > to fix it for my use, but can't open in a normal editor. I was doing a design test when these files tripped a non-POSIX portable character set code in my scanf()'s isspace(). I think they might be ISO8859-2 but not sure. Normal editor claims it can't be
> > open in UTF-8. I'd rather not second guess someone else's work, if I can. If it is  ISO8859-2, I'll just decode/encode me a
> > UTF file to examine. Two other files have UTF8 encodings, which is no problem. Others do but weren't within scope of
> > the trap (comment character to first word after). I am only trying to verify the file parser is picking up exact data, and hopefully
> > not being corrupted by unusual codes, as some have been.
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> > pheonix@zoomtown.com
> > 
>