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Asked: 2009-05-22 13:46:58 +0800 CST

UTF-8 and !# shell scripts

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Is there a way to configure bash on Linux (red hat and ubuntu) to allow shell scripts to be encoded in UTF-8?

I can't find a simple way to change just one little thing and have the whole system just use UTF-8 files without having to worry about encoding.

unix bash configuration utf-8

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  1. Best Answer

    I'm fairly sure bash pays attention to your locale setting, so if it's UTF-8, you should be good to go.

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  2. As long as you don't use the UTF-8 BOM, you should be ok.

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  3. You shouldn't have to do anything, it's always worked automatically for me.

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