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Date: | Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:00:36 -0400 |
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> > > > With this configuration, the upper 128 entries to the ASCII > > table are displayed as follows (the #'s are replacements for > > the gray box character that is displayed): > > That's because because bytes from 0x80 to 0xFF by themselves are > invalid in UTF-8. Those codepoints need to be encoded as two-byte > sequences. I'd suspect /bin/ascii isn't designed for that. OK. From what you have written, it appears that the defect is in /usr/bin/ascii (cygutils) in that it does not support UTF-8. Either that will need to be fixed or the documentation for the tool could list/describe the problem so that other users are told that it is known. > > In addition, > > many entries are displayed in the wrong location (some rows are out > > of order). > > That's because some of the C1 control characters are interpreted > specially, in particular CSI and OSC. It's the same if you try it in > xterm. > > You can get most of the printable characters in the C1 range by > switching to Windows codepage 1252. (Well, you could anyway if it > wasn't for a rather bad bug in mintty-0.4.0 and 0.4.1 that means that > ISO-8859-1 is used no matter your codepage setting. That's fixed on > the 0.4 SVN branch.) OK. Users can display the upper 128 entries in 'rxvt' so there is a work-around in a Cygwin environment. (In 'rxvt', LC_CTYPE should not be set to UTF-8. AFAIK, UTF-8 is not supported in cygwin's rxvt.) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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