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Subject:  Re: [1.7] Accented characters don't work
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:57:52 +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:

> 2009/11/27  :
>> What am I doing wrong with my first tries of 1.7?  I created in Windows
>> Explorer a directory Ébène and in it a file très.  When I look at it
>> with ls in an rxvt window I don't see the accented characters but the
>> two utf-8 bytes.  Hm.
>
> Rxvt doesn't support UTF-8.

I knew.  I expected that to mean that certain characters won't be
displayed properly but thinking of it it means rxvt doesn't know
how to `combine' those two (or more) bytes to a single character.
Understandable.

> 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.

And that I really don't like.  Way too complex for my taste for the
simple task of popping up a text window.
>
>
>> I then created the same directory from tcsh (my standard shell) and
>> from bash.
>
> Did you run those in rxvt as well?

Yes.  So I guess the byte my keyboard generated (by using a utility
called AllChars) - and which had the 8th bit set - got converted into
something that Windows thinks is Chinese.  Hm, but how is rxvt involved
here?  Isn't that a pure stty kind problem?  Would it work from a cmd
window?

Michael


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