Re: File encoding

From: Lance Levsen <lance_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Sun Nov 12 2006 - 12:28:58 CST

Steven Kurylo wrote:
> I have some html files I downloaded with FTP to my desktop. My desktop
> says its using en_CA.UTF-8.
>
> I notice a bunch of characters, quotes in particular, are showing up
> as <92> in vi. The web browser shows them as question marks. The
> quotes in the html elements are fine.
>
> How can I fix this?

Identify them in hex (hexedit or hexview). Then do a
$> perl -ei.old -e 's|\x####|<char>|g;' *.html

Cheers,
lance

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