Re: TECH: XP command prompt replacement
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 13:14 |
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> If it's just the font that's the problem
It's not. The terminal emulator program has to understand the
character encoding in order to pick the right character out of the
font.
If it doesn't understand UTF-8, then it's going to see the three-byte
sequence 0xE2 0x99 0xAB as three characters, probably - assuming
Windows code page 1252 - lowercase A with circumflex, the trademark
symbol, and a left-pointing guillemet. A UTF-8 terminal will see the
same sequence as the character U+266B BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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