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UTF-8 system configuration 

 

 

Introduction 

A few tricks to use UTF-8 efficiently. 

 

 

Misc 

To connect with PuTTY, use those options, 

Window > Translation > character set : UTF-8

 

For GNU screen, 

screen -U

 

 

Vim configuration 

No colors and enable filetypes, 

cd ~/
cat > .vimrc <<EOF9
syn off
filetype plugin indent on
EOF9

 

Configure filetypes, 

mkdir -p .vim/after/ftplugin
cd .vim/after/ftplugin
cat > sh.vim <<EOF9
setlocal autoindent
EOF9
cat > html.vim <<EOF9
setlocal autoindent
setlocal shiftwidth=1
setlocal fileencoding=utf-8
EOF9
ln -s html.vim jsp.vim
ln -s sh.vim ksh.vim

 

Note. alternatively only into .vimrc, 

autocmd FileType html   set autoindent
autocmd FileType html   set shiftwidth=1
autocmd FileType html   set fileencoding=utf-8

 

 

Redhat specifics 

UTF8 is already the default charater set on RHEL3,4,5, 

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Note. RHEL3,4 : /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 

Note. RHEL5 : /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 

 

 

References 

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml 

http://www.maruko.ca/i18n/