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Subject: Re: [1.7] Accented characters don't work
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2009/11/27  <lemkemch AT t-online DOT de>:
> What am I doing wrong with my first tries of 1.7? =C2=A0I created in Wind=
ows
> Explorer a directory =C3=89b=C3=A8ne and in it a file tr=C3=A8s. =C2=A0Wh=
en I look at it
> with ls in an rxvt window I don't see the accented characters but the
> two utf-8 bytes. =C2=A0Hm.

Rxvt doesn't support UTF-8. It's dead upstream, so that's unlikely to
change. UTF-8 is supported by urxvt (aka rxvt-unicode), xterm, mintty,
and the Cygwin console. Urxvt and xterm require an X server.


> I then created the same directory from tcsh (my standard shell) and
> from bash.

Did you run those in rxvt as well?

Andy

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