Updated documentation for text encodings. - sam - An updated version of the sam text editor.
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(HTM) Author: Rob King <jking@deadpixi.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 23:42:11 -0600
Updated documentation for text encodings.
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@@ -77,6 +77,29 @@ to be controlled via commands on the remote system.
Start the terminal part from the indicated file.
Useful for debugging.
.El
+.Ss Text Files
+.Nm
+can only edit text files,
+encoded using the encoding specified in the
+.Ev LC_ALL ","
+.Ev LC_CTYPE ","
+or
+.Ev LANG
+environment variables
+.Po
+see
+.Xr locale 7
+.Pc "."
+.Nm
+supports any encoding supported by the underlying operating system.
+.Pp
+Editing files that do not contain valid text in the current encoding
+.Pq "including binary files"
+will result in a warning and such files generally neither load nor display correctly.
+The standard
+.Xr iconv 1
+utility can be used to convert among various text encodings,
+and may be useful in converting files to the current encoding for editing.
.Ss Regular expressions
Regular expressions are more-or-less as they are in
.Xr regex 7 ","