forcing text files to UTF-8 charset
first of all I use file utility to get the file charset, with -b and -i parameters to have a brief report, in mime type style:
michele@erakis:~$ file -bi file.txt
text/html; charset=unknown-8bit
michele@erakis:~$ vi file.txt
then in vi
:set encoding=utf-8
:set fileencoding=utf-8
:wq
let’s check
michele@erakis:~$ file -bi file.txt
text/html; charset=utf-8
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