Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 2008/12/2 DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> >>> Testcase (I think it should even be put into the book): >>> >>> LANG=en_US xterm >>> in that xterm: curl http://räksmörgås.josefsson.org/ >>> >>> >> Thanks for the testcase Alexander. All of them have been invaluable to >> my limited uni-lingual mind (is that even a word?). Might be nice if an >> expectation was set. :-) I don't have curl installed yet so I haven't >> tried it. >> >> I assume the expected outcome is something to the effect of 'Resolving >> r\303\244ksm\303\266rg\303\245s.josefsson.org... failed: Name or service >> not known.', as it does with an old wget if not working...otherwise >> we'll be greeted with a raw copy of the index. >> > > The expected outcome is a portion of HTML. Obviously, this works only > if you really have the en_US locale, i.e., the "locale" command in the > xterm doesn't print any errors. And your locale setup is indeed > incorrect, as "\303\244" appear, as if the paste resulted in UTF-8 > bytes instead of ISO-8859-1, and as if bash treats these characters as > unprintable (this happens only in the "C" locale). > That wasn't the paste..that was the result of an old version of wget mangling it in the error on a well abused 6.3 LFS host.
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