Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:59:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: dan@langille.org Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are these characters please? Message-ID: <3CB4FBFB.9D2AC7E0@mindspring.com> References: <20020411021840.42AC93F30@bast.unixathome.org>
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Dan Langille wrote: > I found these characters in a recent cvs-all commit: > > 20 20 20 20 20 5b 53 75 62 6d 69 74 74 65 64 20 | [Submitted | > 62 79 3a 20 56 69 6c 6c 65 20 53 6b 79 74 74 1b |by: Ville Skytt.| > 2c 41 64 1b 28 42 20 3c 76 69 6c 6c 65 2e 73 6b |,Ad.(B <ville.sk| > 79 74 74 61 40 69 6b 69 2e 66 69 3e 5d 0a 20 20 |ytta@iki.fi>]. | > > When viewed under vi, I get: > > Ville Skytt^[,Ad^[(B <ville.skytta@iki.fi> ANSI character set selector escape sequence for 7 bit representation of 8 bit characters. If I had to guess, I would say "eth", which is a "D" with a bar in it, unlike "thorn", which is an "O" with a forwars slash through it. 8-). Obviously a deficiency in the encapsulation of a cut-and-paste that was not attributed by encoding, because CVS commit logs are not MIME encapsulated. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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