Re: mutt to show hi-bit chars once & for all?

[Russell Hoover <rj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon 09/19/05 at 03:10 PM +0200,
Alain Bench <messtic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     [print "\xBC"]
> > it's "Pi" -- the mathematical Pi
>     [print "\xA6"]
> > the oe ligature.
> 
>     :-( Both don't fit. Perhaps "print" command does some form of
> transcoding. Another idea, what gives:
> | $ echo "äü" | iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8  # echo small au umlauts
> | äü


[panix1:~]  [v4.2.5]  zsh  1044 --> echo "äü" | iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8
äü
[panix1:~]  [v4.2.5]  zsh  1045 -->

(I simply cut-and-pasted your command out of the email and onto my
shell prompt.)

That command returns:  capital-A-with-tilde, box, capital-A-with-tilde
(again), and the mathematical Pi sign.


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