File viewer special characters

Search Forums. Show Threads. Show Posts. Registered User. Join Date: Mar Hi, I have a file which has special characters. I can't see them when I "vi" the file.

But I am sure there are some special un seen characters. How can I see them? Please help. Join Date: Feb I think vim might also show it. How can I use vim? I tried vim filename and it doesn't work. Originally Posted by jingi Administrator Emeritus. Join Date: Aug In vi, use :set list and you can do :set nolist to get back to normal.

Rename File Name with Special Characters. I am trying to rename files with spaces and other characters and not able to be successful. Naming file with special characters? To start Character Map and see all of the available characters for a particular font, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Character Map.

If Character Map is not installed, you must install Character Map:. You can use one of the following methods to insert special characters from Character Map into a document in a compatible program. To copy individual characters or a group of characters to the clipboard and then paste them into a program:. On the Edit menu, click Paste. You can also copy characters by dragging them from Character Map directly into an open document.

Press and hold down the ALT key while you type the four number Unicode value for the character. Click the special character that you want to use. The Unicode number that corresponds to the character you select appears in the lower right corner of the window. Unicode is a character standard that represents almost all of the written languages of the world.

Most Windows interfaces use the UTF form. For more information about Unicode, please view the following Unicode Web site:. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information. Windows More Asked 11 years, 9 months ago. Active 5 years, 8 months ago. Viewed k times. I've created a text file from an application that I developed.

How can I have the same in Windows? Improve this question. Peter Mortensen See unicode. On a Mac, also see the file command, to tell if a BOM is present. By the way, a quick way to enforce a wrong encoding on any computer: open the file in a browser and explicitly set the encoding to ISO just like you did in TextMate.

Next, do a View Source for the file. Arjan not just a Mac. And anyhow, the xxd -p command shows the actual bytes so is much better. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. I don't think TextMate has got it wrong.

It looks more like the text encoding was changed manually to Windows Latin Even though it won't define the actual byte order , it does indicate it's UTF And in this very question, the presence is actually quite nice, as it shows it's been explicitly outputted as UTF-8, not the required ISO or PC An easy way to view this kind of stuff in Windows is to use the "type" command.

I would do something like this: type filename.