How to set up Unicode

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Revision #27 was created by François Gannaz on Feb 20, 2013, 8:21:02 AM.

protect file names, and do not promote root access (though `sudo su` was funny)

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Make sure that you use an editor which is capable of using UTF-8 and save all your files UTF-8 encoded without [BOM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark). If you have some older non-unicode files in your project open them with your editor and save them again UTF-8 encoded.

On Linux you can also use command line tools like `recode` or `iconv` to convert a whole bunch of files.

For Eexample, to convert every php file in the directory "myproject/" and its sub-directories: ~~~ [bash] $ cd ~~/var/www/~~myproject/ $ sudo su

# for i in $(find -name '*.php'); do encoding=$(file -bi "$i" | sed -e 's/.*[ ]charset=//'); iconv -f $encoding -t UTF-8 -o "$i " "$i"; done ~~# exit~~

~~~

On Windows you can use application like [`Notepad++`](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ "Notepad++"), which has `Encoding` menu from where you can change encodings of your files.

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