From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 03:35:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490EF1065672 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 03:35:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo203.cox.net (eastrmfepo203.cox.net [68.230.241.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA47A8FC08 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 03:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo305.cox.net ([68.230.241.237]) by eastrmfepo203.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20111109033527.JWFH3769.eastrmfepo203.cox.net@eastrmimpo305.cox.net>; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 22:35:27 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.86.236]) by eastrmimpo305.cox.net with bizsmtp id urbS1h00355wwzE02rbSLx; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:35:26 -0500 X-CT-Class: Bulk X-CT-Score: 5.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A02020A.4EB9F4FE.00E1,ss=3,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=BX0YEIBOusRIeQdDschwVvWAB1OmeRFmMWKQyT+Am3A= c=1 sm=1 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=uAbGmPAyUfLL1M3oYAsfuA==:17 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=qrDtXlDNX9hSwqRxQJMA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=uAbGmPAyUfLL1M3oYAsfuA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pA93ZPJi016810; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:35:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:35:20 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Message-ID: <20111108213520.535c52d8@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20111108202418.05081f25@cox.net> References: <20111108184236.3a78ebf6@cox.net> <20111108202418.05081f25@cox.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Ross , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:35:33 -0000 On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:24:18 -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > Even more confusing, selecting the character and copying it to the > clipboard, the UTF-16 representation (0xfc) is what actually gets > used. Pasting this single-byte version into an X terminal (any of > them: xterm, gnome-terminal, etc.) does display the correct character, > an umlauted "u", even if using an 8-bit locale, such as UTF-8. > Majorly confusing! Just realized on reading this how weird it sounds. What I was getting at here was that the (single-byte) UTF-16 code displays the correct character in a UTF-8 locale, even though the UTF-8 code for the character is supposedly a 2-byte sequence. Anyway, enough about that. I've managed to get the results I was hoping for now, so I'm satisfied. :-) Thanks again for all the responses. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net