From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 10 19:59:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBE637B41E for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0513.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.44.3] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16vUo9-0004rX-00; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:59:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB4FBFB.9D2AC7E0@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:59:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dan@langille.org Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are these characters please? References: <20020411021840.42AC93F30@bast.unixathome.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Langille wrote: > I found these characters in a recent cvs-all commit: > > 20 20 20 20 20 5b 53 75 62 6d 69 74 74 65 64 20 | [Submitted | > 62 79 3a 20 56 69 6c 6c 65 20 53 6b 79 74 74 1b |by: Ville Skytt.| > 2c 41 64 1b 28 42 20 3c 76 69 6c 6c 65 2e 73 6b |,Ad.(B 79 74 74 61 40 69 6b 69 2e 66 69 3e 5d 0a 20 20 |ytta@iki.fi>]. | > > When viewed under vi, I get: > > Ville Skytt^[,Ad^[(B ANSI character set selector escape sequence for 7 bit representation of 8 bit characters. If I had to guess, I would say "eth", which is a "D" with a bar in it, unlike "thorn", which is an "O" with a forwars slash through it. 8-). Obviously a deficiency in the encapsulation of a cut-and-paste that was not attributed by encoding, because CVS commit logs are not MIME encapsulated. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message