On 2002-07-06 at 21:42 -0400, James K.Lowden wrote: > PMJI. You might want to have a look at http://czyborra.com/ > Mr. Czyborra has a pretty good overview of what's what > regarding encoding and character sets, and does a good job of > distinguishing between fonts, glyphs, and characters. You > may in particular want to look at: > > http://czyborra.com/unicode/terminals.html
This certainly seems a pretty good site. I'll have to take a long look at it sometime but it's answered a few questions already... thanks for the reference! > What you bumped into was, as Lars said, a problem with xterm. > If you push UTF-8 to stdout, it falls to the application > whose job it is to convert encoded values into glyphs that > your brain can interpret as characters (I'm skipping a few > steps). The standard xterm is *not* going to expect UTF-8; > it will instead interpret the bytestream as ASCII or Latin-1 > or whatever your locale settings indicate. Yep. However, it does appear from czyborra that there is an escape sequence to make UTF-8 hacked 4.0 xterms switch into UTF-8 mode. I'll investigate this and give it a try. Not sure if it's the kind of thing that Dia should be outputting however... probably more of a user/system-wide thing. > dia --credits |sort > > how is sort(1) supposed to know what's incoming? It doesn't > guess; it assumes, and unless the answer is 7-bit ascii, it > assumes wrong. Its only defense is, it's got a lot of good > company. Good point. In this case I'm not going to worry because the names are not surname, forename anyway (which is conventional in most locales I think), and there is surrounding bumpf too. But in a more general case that is very important I guess. > Interesting place. In particular, the -u8 option for xterm > does exactly what Andrew wants. We should get Akira and Xing > Wang to use their utf8 encodings for their names. Yes, I guess so. I'll continue outputting in UTF-8 then: I'll assume it's the responsibility of the user to sort out their terminal if they want 'correct' output. Cheers for all that guys, Andrew. -- Andrew Ferrier email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
