Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 12:18:10 -0800 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: Farhan Khan <khanzf@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Printing UTF-8 characters Message-ID: <CAG6CVpVHjL6eNyG3JKJ_Nrv1DQzQJ1RsXGfA8cbn2opfA7wcpA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFd4kYB_eU00Z5nBzp-iNGuELN4cy_ADGABb-boq4Fvn-a0XMg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFd4kYD_Q9Y84LvCGELVodt%2B30KM_KzNzoLOzudZm9kaLqGPaQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180201072831.GA2239@c720-r314251> <CAFd4kYB_eU00Z5nBzp-iNGuELN4cy_ADGABb-boq4Fvn-a0XMg@mail.gmail.com>
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You've said a number of things about UTF-8 that appear to be mistaken. Start here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-= every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-= character-sets-no-excuses/ On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Farhan Khan <khanzf@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:28 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: >> >> El d=C3=ADa jueves, febrero 01, 2018 a las 01:15:34a. m. -0500, Farhan K= han escribi=C3=B3: >> >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > Is there a standard way to render historically non-printable UTF-8 >> > characters that will work across all terminals? I am trying to modify = a >> > standard FreeBSD utility that may occasionally work with characters in >> > other languages. On some terminals, specifically FreeBSD running in >> > VirtualBox, I see question-marks rather than the expected character. I >> > wonder if this is the proper way to display such non-printable charact= ers >> > or no? >> >> Not sure what you mean with 'historically non-printable UTF-8'. UTF-8 is >> an encoding form (one of more) to present Unicode Codepoints in bytes. I= f >> you want to "print" them to paper or PDF there are ways to write them >> with Postscript and with the correct font-support to bring them into >> human readable form. If you want to "display" these UTF-8 bytes you need >> a terminal-software with UTF-8 support, for example from the ports x11/r= xvt-unicode >> and the fonts for the Codepoint areas you want to display. >> >> Btw: Can you display my signature line correctly? There is an UTF-8 enco= ded >> Codepoint for a mobile telephone :-) >> >> matthias >> -- >> Matthias Apitz, =E2=9C=89 guru@unixarea.de, =E2=8C=82 http://www.unixare= a.de/ =F0=9F=93=B1 +49-176-38902045 >> Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub >> > > Sorry, that was a poorly phrased question on my part. Let me try again. > I am trying to make text align in columns in a terminal. My > understanding is that characters above 0x7E are 3 bytes in length. A > modern terminal will render that as either a single question-mark or > the character itself, making terminal column alignment easy. But how > would an older terminal display a 3-byte character? I am worried that > would render as 3 question marks and throw off column alignment. If > so, is there a proper way to perform alignment for both newer and > older terminals? > > I am reading this email on Gmail's, so those characters properly > render for me :) > > Thanks, > > -- > Farhan Khan > PGP Fingerprint: B28D 2726 E2BC A97E 3854 5ABE 9A9F 00BC D525 16EE > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "
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