[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #5195] (grass) ps.map sets encoding to iso-8859-1

[Hamish]

Moritz Lennert wrote:
> So, maybe we should at least add a hint to the ps.map man page that 
> utf-8-based users who want non-ascii characters should translate their 
> utf-8 instruction files to unibyte before using them.

yes that would be good, with an example.

> I imagine there is no way of automatically identifying the encoding of a 
> file ?

file $filename


Hamish