Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2008

I have a file I cull from a web page.  It has kana/kanji in Japanese
that reads fine.  A few example lines:

001 1935E Tatsuzō Ishikawa for 蒼氓 Sōbō
003 1936E Oda Takeo for 城外 Jyōgai
003 1936E Tsuruta Tomoya for コシャマイン記 Koshamain ki

I paste it into TextEdit to save.  It looks fine. I can paste it into
Pages just fine.

I want to manipulate it a bit and load the file into vi, where again
the kana/kanji looks fine.  I edit some of it.  I save it.  I list it
to the screen via the unis "head" command.  Looks fine.

But if I now if I look at it on screen via flow the kana/kanji it new
newly save file looks gimpled.  Additionally if I load it into either
TextEdit or Pages it is gimped there and looks like this:

001zzz1935EzzzTatsuzō Ishikawa for 蒼氓 Sōbō
003zzz1936EzzzOda Takeo for 城外 Jyōgai
003zzz1936EzzzTsuruta Tomoya for コシャマイン記 Koshamain ki

I realize that BOTH of these probably look gimped for some newsreaders.
My issue seems to be that vi doesn't really save the file I loaded as
is.  I just loaded the original un-gimped text file in vi and saved it
without modification. And it seems to be permanantely gimped for all
but the unix environment.

I was forced to cat the whole damn modified file to the screen in unix,
copy it and paste THAT into Pages to get where I wanted to go. What a
nuisance.

Any help on how to avoid that with juggling text formats in unix¿