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View Latin1 encoded file in a terminal with LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8


From: Joachim Breit
Subject: View Latin1 encoded file in a terminal with LANG set to de_DE.UTF-8
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:20:24 +0200
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Hi,

I have a file encoded in Latin-1 (cp1252). When I open this file with Nano (from a terminal window in KDE) lots of characters are not displayed correctly), presumably because my system is set to UTF-8 (environment variable LANG=de_DE.UTF-8). The Nano menus are displayed fine.

My first idea was to do a 'export LANG=de_DE@euro' before starting Nano. But then both the nano menus and the file are showing placeholder characters for German Umlaute an Spanish accents.

As you may guess from the problem description I am not an expert. Am I missing something? An encoding setting? Or is it a 'must' to have every file in UTF-8? Please help.

Jo



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