Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:29:09 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: DStaal@usa.net Subject: Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters Message-ID: <20111108212909.4549a29d@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <55A813557C42D92761C1B590@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> References: <20111108184236.3a78ebf6@cox.net> <201111090117.pA91HRDo065662@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20111108195804.6dfa47c8@cox.net> <55A813557C42D92761C1B590@mac-pro.magehandbook.com>
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:27:16 -0400 Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote: > --As of November 8, 2011 7:58:04 PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier is > alleged to have said: >=20 > > So, what would be the safest bet as far as the most "universal" > > representation for these characters? Something I've long wondered > > about when I've e-mailed people and copied/pasted these characters > > (are they really seeing what I'm seeing?). :-) >=20 > --As for the rest, it is mine. >=20 > These days, the safest bet is UTF-8, or some other Unicode character > set, in something that can convey what character set it is in. > (Email can, depending on the mail client.) >=20 > Not that Unicode is universal yet, but it designed to be (and is,=20 > generally) a solution to the 'multiple character encodings' problem. > (By, of course, defining a new encoding.) It has a decent amount of > traction, and in a decade or so - once other options have been firmly > depreciated - I'd expect we could start discussing whether to switch > ls to using it by default. ;) >=20 > All this is of course if you *must* go beyond 7-bit ASCII. (Which > all forms of Unicode is designed to be a strict superset of.) That sounds sane and sensible. :-) I've adjusted my environment to include: export LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=3Den_US.UTF-8 And also adjusted my console configuration to display these characters: font8x14=3D"iso-8x14" font8x16=3D"iso-8x16" font8x8=3D"iso-8x8" And, last but not least, aliased "ls" to ensure these characters will actually be displayed: alias ls=3D'ls -Fw' Looking good here now: conrads:~$ cd "Music/Progressive Rock/Yes/The Yes Album" conrads:~/Music/Progressive Rock/Yes/The Yes Album$ ls *03* Yes - The Yes Album - 03 - Starship Trooper: a. Life Seeker - b. Disillusion - c. W=FCrm.mp3 Many thanks to everyone for all the very helpful, useful information. --=20 Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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