Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:45:00 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is this character encoding or corrupted text? Message-ID: <a43qnc$aae$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200202091502.g19F2ri64142@lists.unixathome.org>
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Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=292893+0+archive/2001/cvs- > all/20010429.cvs-all > > In the log, the name "Matthias Kvppe" appears. Is that the correct name? That is probably "Matthias Köppe" (ISO 8859-15) with the top bit cut off. Or "Matthias Koeppe" in transcription. > My next question is how to properly handle these characters. First you need to figure what the original character was. Since you can't tag CVS logs and such with character sets, you'll then have to come up with an ASCII transcription according to the rules of the originating language. (Alternatively people could agree to use UTF-8, but FreeBSD support for that is painfully weak. And you'd still have to convert from whatever original character set to UTF-8.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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