On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 08:55:29PM -0400, Tyro[17] wrote: [...] > Which reminds me... how does one create a utf-8 encoded file at the > shell prompt? [...]
Depends. On Linux, most modern versions of VI and EMACS support utf-8 natively, it's just a matter of setting up the default settings. For bash, cat, grep, and friends, it's just a matter of setting up a UTF-8 locale on the system (or for a single user, but if you can, might as well make it default on the whole system). Then use a terminal like rxvt-unicode to actually see the characters, and setup XKB to international key composition to actually type Unicode characters, and you're good to go. (Note: most modern distros should have all of the above setup by default already. You really only need to do it manually when upgrading from an older system.) On Windows... I have no idea. Haven't used it for anything significant for over a decade now. :-P T -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that address all questions by piling on ridiculous internal links in forms which are hideously over-complex." -- Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev