On 24/8/2006, at 10:00, Helge Hartmann wrote:
Yes, you are right. If the file encoding is UTF-8, the umlaute are displayed correctly. But I usually use the iso ISO-8859-1 encoding for my files. I will think about switching to UTF-8 but shouln't it be possible to use the todo list with every encoding?
No, there is no way for the to-do command to know that your files are in latin-1, cp-1252, MacRoman, or whatever other 8 bit encoding you might use.
Since UTF-8 is the only sane 8 bit encoding to use for new stuff, it assumes they are UTF-8. Ironically UTF-8 does have the property that it can (unlike the other encodings) be recognized with significant certainty.
If you insist on using latin-1 or similar you can however change the to-do command to convert the result using iconv.