CentOS - Sep 2014 - Text file encoding

I'm working with some people using apple laptops. When we share text 
files (latex files), I reach in an encoding problem on our CentOS 
laptops and desktops. In my favorite editor, "?" is
"<8e>", "?" is
"<88>" etc...
Of course, I can change the encoding with iconv:

    iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib
    iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t MACINTOSH file.bib >file.bib.mac

But it is a little tedious to work like this...

Runing pdflatex (in CentOS) on these files written on apple laptops 
works fine with

    \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}


So the main problem is an editor problem. I've tried several ones 
(nedit, gedit, kate, vim...) none of them seams to support this 
encoding. But may be it is a configuration problem ?

Any idea ?

Thanks

Patrick

Hi Patrick, 
>   iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib
>   iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t MACINTOSH file.bib >file.bib.mac
> 
> But it is a little tedious to work like this...
> 
> Runing pdflatex (in CentOS) on these files written on apple laptops works
fine with
> 
>   \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
> 
> So the main problem is an editor problem. I've tried several ones
(nedit, gedit, kate, vim...) none of them seams to support this encoding. But
may be it is a configuration problem ?
> 
> Any idea ?
Use UTF-8 on all platforms. 

Most ediors on the Mac, among them the predominant LaTeX editor for Mac OS X,
TeXshop, can (and should) be set to use UTF-8 as the default encoding, and if
exchanging textual data between platforms is an issue, UTF-8 (or -16) is the
only sensible solution.

Opening files with language specific characters such as German Umlauts in Linux
is no problem if the files have been encoded as UTC-8 and UTF-8 is set as the
locale on Linux.

Cheers, 

  Peter.

Am 26.09.2014 um 15:13 schrieb Patrick B?gou <Patrick.Begou at
legi.grenoble-inp.fr>:
> I'm working with some people using apple laptops. When we share text
files (latex files), I reach in an encoding problem on our CentOS laptops and
desktops. In my favorite editor, "?" is "<8e>",
"?" is "<88>" etc...
> Of course, I can change the encoding with iconv:
> 
>   iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib
>   iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t MACINTOSH file.bib >file.bib.mac
> 
> But it is a little tedious to work like this...
> 
> Runing pdflatex (in CentOS) on these files written on apple laptops works
fine with
> 
>   \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
> 
> 
> So the main problem is an editor problem. I've tried several ones
(nedit, gedit, kate, vim...) none of them seams to support this encoding. But
may be it is a configuration problem ?
> 
> Any idea ?

what about negotiating a _common_ encoding (e.g. utf8, latin1) for all? 
Its trivial for the "apple laptops" users.

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LF