Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:54:18 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are these characters please? Message-ID: <a93tha$14ng$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20020411021840.42AC93F30@bast.unixathome.org>
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Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > When viewed under vi, I get: > > Ville Skytt^[,Ad^[(B <ville.skytta@iki.fi> I suspect that's an ISO 2022 character set switch sequence. Possibly generated by (X)Emacs. > The original email is at: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1425317+0+current/cvs-all+raw > but it appears as "Ville Skyttd <ville.skytta@iki.fi>" which is presumably > what I also want. Ville Skyttä. The final character is a-umlaut. In ISO Latin 1 it's code 0xE4. This gives 0x64 ('d') if the top bit is reset. If vowel-umlaut can't be represented, Finns usually just substitute the base vowel character, so you get Ville Skytta (cf. the email address). > FWIW: the xml is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> and I thought > that encoding would handle those characters. Yes, but for some reason it was written in a different encoding. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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