On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:13 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mimo]$ cut -b1 file3 > > ï > > ï > > ï > > ï > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mimo]$ > > > > Can you notice the ladder shape, the spaces embedded to the left. Even > > the prompt is affected. cut -b should only display the first byte of each > > line and they should be aligned in one column. I am sorry if I can't > > explain it well but I will try again if it's still not clear. > > It's quite possible that the problem is with your terminal > emulator. You can discover that by redirecting the output from > cut to a file, and check the file using hexdump, or simply the > size of the file.
- How hexdump works? If I have a file that contains Arabic-Indic nubmers: Ù Ù Ù Ù Ù hexdump gives: 0000000 a0d9 d90a 0aa1 a2d9 d90a 0aa3 a4d9 000a 000000f Can you explain to me how to relate these numbers to 0660 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO 0661 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ONE 0662 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO 0663 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE 0664 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
