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jeffrey1790
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 Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 3:32 am Post subject: Locale Setting Help |
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When I open any file that was created in windows, i get ^M appended to every single line. My default locale is utf_8, ive also tried iso-8859-1, but still have the same problem.
My /etc/locale.gen
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en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
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I dont want to convert everyfile made in windows.
If anyone can help me fix this, that would be much appreciated. |
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tomk
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Windows and Linux/UNIX systems (and older Macs for that matter) have different newline characters. See this wikipedia article about it.
The ^M is the extra carriage return that is part of the Windows newline character.
There's not much you can do to 'fix' the problem if you're e.g. sharing a drive between both OSes.
If you do want to convert between the two you should install app-text/dos2unix which will give you the dos2unix and unix2dos commands (as well as ones for converting between Mac and UNIX format).
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jeffrey1790
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| Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| tomk wrote: | Windows and Linux/UNIX systems (and older Macs for that matter) have different newline characters. See this wikipedia article about it.
The ^M is the extra carriage return that is part of the Windows newline character.
There's not much you can do to 'fix' the problem if you're e.g. sharing a drive between both OSes.
If you do want to convert between the two you should install app-text/dos2unix which will give you the dos2unix and unix2dos commands (as well as ones for converting between Mac and UNIX format). |
After converting all the windows text files, I have noticed that an .ini file autogenerated by a linux game added the ^M to the end of each line. Since theres a ^M on each line, the game fails to read the preferences.
EDIT: Its just nano that seems to be the issue. |
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tomk
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| jeffrey1790 wrote: | | EDIT: Its just nano that seems to be the issue. |
I don't use nano but it this option might be what you are looking for:
| man nano wrote: | -N (--noconvert)
Disable automatic conversion of files from DOS/Mac format. |
Or the equivalent for nanorc:
| man nanorc wrote: | set/unset noconvert
Don't convert files from DOS/Mac format. |
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