[LBo] file encodings on Linux

[Emen Zhao]

Hello Group,

I was working on some software internationalization project recently. I was
trying to save a txt file as utf-8 encoding, but without any luck. Changing
the locale setting or LANG env variable seems not helping. For example,

1. export LANG="zh-CN.utf8"
2. create a txt file using vi
3. file file_name

It's till displayed as ASCII text.

Any pointer on this topic are greatly appreciated! TIA


-- Emen