Re: [Help-nano] Character encoding and set whitespace

[David Ramsey]

On Dec 19, 2007 3:27 AM, Manuzhai <address@hidden> wrote:

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> At this point, I'm not sure what to do. I've changed the whitespace
> chars to ">.", but that's obviously less than ideal, as my co-worker
> uses it to inspect Python source files. What part of my setup is
> breaking here? How can I communicate to nano that the nanorc is in
> UTF-8 (which I suspect is the problem)?
>
> Any help much appreciated, cheers,

nano doesn't do character set conversion yet, so, if PuTTY's using the
UTF-8 encoding, it'll think all the files it reads and displays are in
UTF-8.  (The latter may also account for your problems backspacing
through things.)  If you want to use the ISO-8859-1 versions of the
whitespace characters, you should set PuTTY up to use the ISO-8859-1
encoding, and then run nano and enter the characters into your .nanorc.