On Tuesday, October 26 at 11:54 AM, quoth Matthew M Davis: > I have intermittent troubles with characters not rendering properly. > Very common examples include em-dashes rendering as "?" and a bunch of > characters that show up in the format "\22x". I have occasional troubles with \22x characters as well (haven't dug down to the bottom of it), but em-dashes showing up as a question-mark, for me, has always been a case of "locale+terminal problem". I've taken to using xterm in utf-8-mode (e.g. use the uxterm wrapper), which generally takes care of the problem (sometimes the \22x thingies pop up, still, but much more rarely---I suspect a mis-labeled encoding or something like that). One caveat to that... uxterm will attempt to set LC_CTYPE to something involving UTF-8---you'll need all the proper support for UTF-8 locales, and you'll need to not overwrite all those LC_* and LANG envariables with "POSIX"---leave them alone, and let uxterm handle it. HTH, ~Kyle -- Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard
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