My apologies -- a stupid bug was ruining all UTF-8 output. This one should work better: http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-385.tar.gz.
--Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nadim Shaikli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Nudelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 5:54 PM Subject: Re: less & composing characters - fix > --- Mark Nudelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The new version of less is ready for testing. You can download from > > http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-384.tar.gz. I'm especially > > interested in testing multibyte UTF-8 characters, and composing and > > combining characters, including special cases like man-page style > > overstriking of multi-byte characters (two identical characters with a > > backspace between them, or a character overstruck by an underscore), > > line breaks in long lines containing multibyte characters, and command > > line editing (search pattern or :e filename) with multibyte characters. > > One thing that I know doesn't work quite right is combining characters > > on the command line, although composing characters should work. Let me > > know if you find any problems. > > I downloaded 384, but I can't get it to display UTF-8 characters at > all. I get the likes of 'P3REP qDDGP qD1QN-REpFP' instead of seeing > UTF-8 Arabic characters. The same setup, settings (I have, per the > man page, LESSCHARSET set to utf-8) and file under 381 works without > issue. > > Here's a sample file for you to try (compare against what is shown > on your web browser when the UTF-8 encoding is selected), > > www.arabeyes.org/~nadim/ar_utf8 > > Let me know if I'm doing something wrong. > > uname -a : SunOS dah 5.7 Generic_106541-15 sun4u > gcc -v : gcc version 3.2.1 > > Can someone else please confirm (and CC Mark) ? > > Regards, > > - Nadim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
