Greetings, Monks.

Today I went out looking for something like Padre (a replacement for) after having real bad experiences with it. I only found a couple of editors, but they were immature. So no joy. Anyway, to the point. As a rule, I always examine any code before I install it. I look for mixed charset, mixed line endings, or other "oddities" I feel makes for a bad release. Maybe it's just me, but, in this day, and age; it's hard to imagine anyone releasing source that isn't utf-8, with unified line endings, and has no trailing/hanging spaces. To me, anything else, is just bad policy. Anyway. It's such a pill performing the "unification" task within my editor, and when confronted with mixed-iso files, I don't trust the frequently used shell scripts that convert/unify line endings not to corrupt documents that aren't all utf-8 encoded (without BOM). So what I guess I'm asking; does anyone know of a Perl script that safely "unifies" text/source files? Or can anyone suggest a way to do it?

Thanks for all your consideration.

--Chris

EDIT: Line endings, and trailing spaces are trivial to change
Correctly determining encoding/charset, and converting to utf-8, can be tricky

Yes. What say about me, is true.

In reply to Is there a good way to unify text files something like dos2nix shell script(s) do? by taint

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