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Re: TECH: XP command prompt replacement

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 13:14
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. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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