rxvt-unicode tip Re: Charset issue?
On 14May2007 12:24, Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx> wrote:
| On Monday, May 14, 2007 at 8:49:16 +1200, Roland Hill wrote:
| >>| $ printf "L1: won\xB4t \xA8reply\xA8\nU8: won\xC2\xB4t
\xC2\xA8reply\xC2\xA8\n"
| > - L1 line I get "won't" correctly followed by a quote mark.
| > - U8 line I get "won" followed by an "A with a caret on top" followed
| > by an apostrophe and a "t".
|
| Fine: Those were indeed Latin-1 terminals. The day you don't see the
| A circumflex but a correct U8 line, this will mean UTF-8 term.
Might I say that printf line is enormously useful! I have just now fixed
my own unicode setup with its help.
For anyone using rxvt-unicode, this FAQ entry is very important:
http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html#unicode_does_not_seem_to_work
For historic reasons (now bogus) I've been running with LC_CTYPE=C and
LC_COLLATE=C in my environment, still expecting UTF-8 to render in my urxvt
terminals. I've backed off to just the LC_COLLATE setting (so "ls" and shell
globbing behave as I expect/want) and it's all good now!
Alain, thank you!
--
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
Hold up a one iron and walk. Even God can't hit a one iron.
- Lee Travino, on how to not get stuck by lightning.