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Re: data files littered with \234\456 instead of accented chars
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Peter Dyballa |
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Re: data files littered with \234\456 instead of accented chars |
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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:32:40 +0100 |
Am 28.03.2013 um 14:15 schrieb Michel Chassey:
> When I try to save the file it asks for a coding system.
It's not possible to have \234\456 – \456 is not possible in octal notation.
The presence of pairs similar to those makes it likely that you have an UTF-8
encoded text…
You can set in your environment the variables LANG or LC_CTYPE to point to an
UTF-8 based encoding.
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