Glenn Fowler schrieb:
you had set LANG to *UTF-8*
and that is a multibyte encoding
$'\xe4' is not a valid utf-8 encoding
the example I gave contained the utf-8 for s-tzet $'\303\237'
the utf-8 for a-umlaut is $'\303\244'
od -tx1 shows that this message contains $'\xe4' but it doesn't
render as a-umlaut -- does it render as a-umlaut with LANG=C for you?
Both $'\xe4' and $'\303\244' render as a-umlaut with LANG=de_DE.UTF-8.
Only $'\303\244' does so with LANG=C.
if so then there must be some window/terminal settings in play
that are independent of $LANG / $LC_*
I'm pretty sure both the env and term settings must cooperate in
order to get consistent rendering
i.e., both the program and the terminal must know that utf-8 is enabled
Hm, AFAIK the program (ksh93) is multibyte-enabled by default, and the
terminal I use is rxvt-unicode. I use those darned German umlauts a lot in
several programs and never encountered any problems, so I'm not quite
convinced that this isn't a ksh issue...
Thanks anyway!
Confused,
Bernd
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:03:57 +0100 Bernd Eggink wrote:
Glenn Fowler schrieb:
some of your characters did not translate properly for email
Here is a simpler example:
$ a=( name='ä' ) # lower case a umlaut (unicode=00E4)
$ print $a
( name=ä ) # correct
$ print "$a"
(
name==Ã
)
Instead of the lower case a umlaut, an upper case A with tilde (unicode
00C3) appears, and the equal is doubled. This happens on an X terminal
(urxvt) as well as on a normal Linux tty.
However, with the assignment
$ a=( name=$'\xe4' )
both outputs look fine. I noticed that entering 'ä' (a umlaut) and $'\xe4'
produces the same character on the screen, but different byte sequences:
$ print 'ä' | od -x
0000000 a4c3 000a
$ print $'\xe4' | od -x
0000000 0ae4
The same happens under bash, so it might be a matter of some system setting
and/or my lack of understanding. Any clarification is appreciated!
--
Bernd Eggink
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http://sudrala.de
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