[MPlayer-translations] help/help_mp-it.h vs. UTF-8

[Paul TT]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:27:26 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:32:07PM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:25:26 +0200
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 04:54:05PM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:59:30 +0200
> > > > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > The last few commits to the Italian messages file broke the
> > > > > encoding. That file should be UTF-8.  Paul, you need to edit
> > > > > it with a UTF-8 capable editor. And you need to fix the
> > > > > non-UTF-8 parts now, because a mixed-encoding file is broken
> > > > > in all cases.
> > > > 
> > > > so i'm in trouble
> > > > i mean: i used an utf-8 editor (vim), probably by may fault i
> > > > input text non in utf-8....
> > > 
> > > Is your system UTF-8 capable?  Is your locale an UTF-8 locale?
> > > 
> > > > i'm not able to distinguish between utf-8 and non-utf-8 parts,
> > > > now.
> > > 
> > > Don't you see funny characters on line 20 for example?
> > 
> > that's the problem, sigh....
> > in vim i see the accented letters in the correct way when i input
> > them, but when i reopen the file they are /funny/...
> 
> Then somehow your vim is set to ISO8859-1...
> 
> > > > how can i do?
> > > 
> > > Fix your system to be UTF-8.  It's high time, we've been in the
> > > 21st century for some time now.. :)
> > 
> > ehehehe you're right. apparently i am, but may be something i did
> > wrong in some place...
> 
> What is your locale?  What settings do you have on the console for
> LANG, LC_ALL and similar?  What distro are you running?

I had it_IT.UTF-8 at euro for everything but not LANG, which was
it_IT at euro.
the problem i think was vim misrecognized the file as not utf8: as soon
i saved it with fileencoding=utf-8, it began to work as expected; i
changed anyway LANG to match the other environment vars
i'm now committing the changes to help_mp-it.h, see pls if now it's ok

thanx 

PS:: it's Debian...