Re: $assumed_charset settings (was: special chars)

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Alain Bench wrote:

> > > some terminals (Rxvt?) can display simultaneously Latin-1 and UTF-8.
> > Something has to provide the mode-switch between UTF-8 and Latin-1.
>
>    I meant *without* mode switch. Something that would print (fake):
>
> | $ printf "\0351 \0303\0251\n"               # 1 Latin-1 e acute, and 1 UTF-8
> | é é                                 # 2 e acute glyphs
>
>    I never saw that with my eyes, only got a report about rxvt-unicode.
> I imagine this could work by interpreting input as UTF-8, but on each
> erroneous byte reinterpret it as being Latin-1. I can also very well
> imagine that it's not rock solid, as some sequences of Latin-1 chars may
> happen to appear as a valid UTF-8 character. But this trick can probably
> give good results in practice, on say a Latin-1 French text. Wild guess,
> never saw, should not talk.

I guess that would work since the 2nd and 3rd bytes are non-Latin-1. (now 
that I'm reading your remark I seem to recall having read that before, 
perhaps on this mailing list).  But pterm/putty is unlikely to do 
something like that since it's rather unclean unless it's controlled by 
some option (I think ;-).

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