Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:35:20 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters Message-ID: <20111108213520.535c52d8@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20111108202418.05081f25@cox.net> References: <20111108184236.3a78ebf6@cox.net> <op.v4nor5dhg7njmm@michael-think> <20111108202418.05081f25@cox.net>
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:24:18 -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> 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
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