On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 23:04:25 -0600 (CST)
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote:
grin
Yes, and this is one area where the labels are more than a little
misleading as well. My natural inclination is think of UTF-8 as
being a
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:59:48 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
Same here. I've been guilty as well of neglecting to properly adjust
my console configuration.
Sometimes just works in combination with lazyness beats
all proper concepts of doing things. :-)
Doesn't using LC_ALL obviate the need
It's worth noting, too, that most of the non-Unicode encoding systems
predate the Internet. When computers weren't really talking to each
other, there was no real emphasis on interoperability, and every OS
tended to come up with their own way of encoding foreign languages.
Languages like French,
Pardon me if this may seem like a stupid question, but this is
something that's been bugging me for a long time, and none of my
research has turned up anything useful yet.
I've been trying to understand what the deal is with regards to the
displaying of the extended 8-bit character set, i.e.,
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:42:36 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
I've been trying to understand what the deal is with regards to the
displaying of the extended 8-bit character set, i.e., 8-bit characters
with the MSB set.
Quite simply Unix dates from the days where the 8th bit was used as a
Am 09.11.2011, 01:42 Uhr, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net:
Pardon me if this may seem like a stupid question, but this is
something that's been bugging me for a long time, and none of my
research has turned up anything useful yet.
I've been trying to understand what the deal is with
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:17:27 -0600 (CST)
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:42:36 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
I've been trying to understand what the deal is with regards to the
displaying of the extended 8-bit character set, i.e., 8-bit
characters
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:17:27 -0600 (CST)
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:42:36 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
I've been trying to understand what the deal is with regards to the
displaying of the extended 8-bit character set, i.e., 8-bit
characters
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:51:31 +0100, Michael Ross wrote:
Am 09.11.2011, 01:42 Uhr, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net:
Pardon me if this may seem like a stupid question, but this is
something that's been bugging me for a long time, and none of my
research has turned up anything
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:58:04 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
So, what would be the safest bet as far as the most universal
representation for these characters? Something I've long wondered
about when I've e-mailed people and copied/pasted these characters (are
they really seeing what I'm
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:51:31 +0100
Michael Ross g...@ross.cx wrote:
Am 09.11.2011, 01:42 Uhr, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier
conr...@cox.net:
Pardon me if this may seem like a stupid question, but this is
something that's been bugging me for a long time, and none of my
research has turned
--As of November 8, 2011 7:58:04 PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier is alleged to
have said:
So, what would be the safest bet as far as the most universal
representation for these characters? Something I've long wondered
about when I've e-mailed people and copied/pasted these characters (are
they
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 03:10:24 +0100
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:51:31 +0100, Michael Ross wrote:
Am 09.11.2011, 01:42 Uhr, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier
conr...@cox.net:
[snip]
I've been trying to understand what the deal is with regards to
the displaying of
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:27:16 -0400
Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
--As of November 8, 2011 7:58:04 PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier is
alleged to have said:
So, what would be the safest bet as far as the most universal
representation for these characters? Something I've long wondered
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:24:18 -0600
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@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,
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote:
grin
Yes, and this is one area where the labels are more than a little
misleading as well. My natural inclination is think of UTF-8 as being a
single-byte representation for each character in the set, whereas
UTF-16, as the name implies, would be
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