What do you get when you type....
file filename ?
I don't remember, but I think in the Fedora 9 days Unicode may not have been the
default. The encoding you have may be GB2312.
You can try running....
iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF8 filename > filename.utf8
and then vi the resulting file....
On the Redhat 9 system, for a simplified Chinese file, I get "ISO-8859 text".
On the Fedora-18 system, for a simplified Chinese file imported from the Redhat 9 system,
I get "ISO-8859 text".
On the Fedora-18 system, for a new simplified Chinese file, I get "UTF-8 Unicode
text".
I have not yet tried an iconv. When I try it, what should the f and t arguments be, and
do I need any other arguments?
thanks,
Bill.