Hi Josh:

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 11:26, you wrote:
> Most distros these days enable UTF-8 locales by default.  What does `locale` 
> report?
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=en_US
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

> > Weeding for Your Library\u2019s Health 
> That's actually a unicode character, (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (’),
> specifically).  Given its value, it's represented as a couple of bytes
> (0x80 0xE2) when encoded in utf-8.
> 
> The file might be in utf-8, but vim is decoding that, and displaying them as
> single unicode characters to you … or maybe for some reason not believing
> that it can do so, and instead showing the substitute "\u2019" instead of the 
> character?
Seems that way, maybe it's a FF thing, since almost everything i'm c/p'ing is 
from a
web browser.
  
> I'd believe it's a terminal problem.  What terminal are you using?  Does
> gnome-terminal (or konsole or whatever; something more modern than xterm)
> exhibit the same problem, or a different one (or none)?
> 
Thanks for pointing that out! Below are some terms i use, so i'll try a plain 
xterm (nxterm, etc.)
both as user::root and user::rion and see what differences i find:)
That's a good place to start.

uxterm -bg darkgray -bw 8 -cr firebrick -cu -aw +ah -b 4 +bdc +cm -cr pink  +dc 
-fb arial \
 -fn 8x16 -hc purple -j  -lc -ms green -rightbar -rvc  -sb -vb  -sl 500  -ls 
-ms purple  -geometry 110x24

uxterm -aw -bd orange -fg black -bg lightgray -bw 8 -cr firebrick -cu  +ah -b 4 
+bdc +cm +dc \
 -fn 8x16 -hc purple -j  -lc -ms green -rightbar -rvc  -sb -vb  -sl 500  -ls 
-ms purple  -geometry 110x24

Rion

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