On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:57:52 +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
2009/11/27 :
What am I doing wrong with my first tries of 1.7? I created in Windows
Explorer a directory Ébène and in it a file très. When I look at it
with ls in an rxvt window I don't see the accented characters but the
two utf-8 bytes. Hm.
Rxvt doesn't support UTF-8.
I knew. I expected that to mean that certain characters won't be
displayed properly but thinking of it it means rxvt doesn't know
how to `combine' those two (or more) bytes to a single character.
Understandable.
It's dead upstream, so that's unlikely to
change. UTF-8 is supported by urxvt (aka rxvt-unicode), xterm, mintty,
and the Cygwin console. Urxvt and xterm require an X server.
And that I really don't like. Way too complex for my taste for the
simple task of popping up a text window.
I then created the same directory from tcsh (my standard shell) and
from bash.
Did you run those in rxvt as well?
Yes. So I guess the byte my keyboard generated (by using a utility
called AllChars) - and which had the 8th bit set - got converted into
something that Windows thinks is Chinese. Hm, but how is rxvt involved
here? Isn't that a pure stty kind problem? Would it work from a cmd
window?
Michael
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