The Linux administrators that work with web hosting know how is it important to keep correct character encoding of the html documents.
From the following article you’ll learn how to check a file’s encoding from the command-line in Linux.
You will also find the best solution to convert text files between different charsets.
I’ll also show the most common examples of how to convert a file’s encoding between CP1251 (Windows-1251, Cyrillic), UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and ASCII charsets. (more…)
Locales are used in Linux to define which language and character set (encoding) user see in the terminal.
From this article you will learn how to check and change the current locale and language settings from the command line in Linux.
I will show how to check the current locale and language settings and how to get the list of available locals.
You will also see how to set locale and language temporary for the current session only as well as permanently for a single user or for the all users (change default system locale). (more…)