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Updated documentation for text encodings. - sam - An updated version of the sam… |
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commit 00565c2038e509f543f5ad684835e07d2e10ab00 |
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parent 1289ce42b82e14082a5ab4e42e0a33f8260ff33b |
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Author: Rob King <[email protected]> |
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 23:42:11 -0600 |
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Updated documentation for text encodings. |
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@@ -77,6 +77,29 @@ to be controlled via commands on the remote system. |
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Start the terminal part from the indicated file. |
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Useful for debugging. |
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.El |
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+.Ss Text Files |
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+.Nm |
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+can only edit text files, |
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+encoded using the encoding specified in the |
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+.Ev LC_ALL "," |
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+.Ev LC_CTYPE "," |
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+or |
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+.Ev LANG |
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+environment variables |
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+.Po |
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+see |
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+.Xr locale 7 |
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+.Pc "." |
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+.Nm |
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+supports any encoding supported by the underlying operating system. |
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+.Pp |
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+Editing files that do not contain valid text in the current encoding |
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+.Pq "including binary files" |
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+will result in a warning and such files generally neither load nor display cor… |
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+The standard |
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+.Xr iconv 1 |
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+utility can be used to convert among various text encodings, |
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+and may be useful in converting files to the current encoding for editing. |
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.Ss Regular expressions |
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Regular expressions are more-or-less as they are in |
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.Xr regex 7 "," |
