On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:48:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:23:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:44:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Well, i most definitively cannot see it, and i am using a UTF-8 aware > > > > xterm (uxterm if i am not wrong). > > > > > > Try: > > > > > > printf - | groff -Tutf8 | grep . > > > > > > then: > > > > > > printf - | groff -Tutf8 | grep . | od -tx1 > > > > > > I've seen a similar report before, but IIRC it turned out to be a > > > terminal/font problem. > > > > I get an invisible - for the first one, and then : > > > > 00000000 e2 80 90 0a > > 00000004 > > > > for the second one. > > groff is behaving correctly, then, which means that you must be using a > font which doesn't have the U+2010 HYPHEN glyph. Fix that ... > > I use 'pterm -fn > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1' as a > Unicode terminal.
Yep, i guess this would work, but i think that this kind of things should be the default, if we are counseling people to write stuff in UTF8 in debian related things. Other problems is sshing from a non UTF terminal, but then luit helps, but there is not really much we can do there, no ? Friendly, Sven Luther
