Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 02:38:32 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net> To: Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 problem in 8.0 Message-ID: <20100103013832.GL3508@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <1112548880.20100101154736@takeda.tk> References: <1112548880.20100101154736@takeda.tk>
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On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 15:47:36 -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote: > Hello, > > After installing FreeBSD 8.0 I noticed that some characters aren't > displayed correctly (it worked fine for 7.2). > > Mainly the dash character is most noticeable (though it's possible > it's more of them). > > Example: > env LANG=C man sh > env LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 man sh > env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man sh > > The first command shows everything fine, the later two seem to show > some unprintable character in place of every dash (i.e. in the second > paragraph word "built-in", or the dashes that break up the words at > the end of the line) me too, though I'm only setting LC_CTYPE to de_DE.UTF-8 and I don't always see it. It must be some combination of xterm/ssh and/or putty that breaks this. On the other hand, I thought there was a commit done, that would render - (the dash) always as - (0x2d) so you can copy&paste the examples from the manpage into your shell. But perhaps I was just dreaming this up? Bye, Uli
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