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
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