[Cialug] Linux Work - Debian

[Dave Weis]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Tom Pohl wrote:
> That's funny, on my mac, both characters came across just fine :)

My LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8, not sure why it didn't display. Now that I 
think about it sometimes I do see characters like that but sometimes 
not... Might be my PuTTY config though.

> On Nov 17, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>
>> On Monday November 17 2008 13:19, Dave Weis wrote:
>>> I'm not sure what will show up on anyone else's screen but I laughed
>>> that a character set complaint had a mangled letter in fiance :-)
>> 
>> The accented e should have been fine as it is rather standard, but for
>> some reason the o with a macron (used in romaji) appears to have been
>> mangled. Both characters are in the UTF-8 set, so i'm not sure what the
>> problem was. Shows how much of a mess 8-bit encodings are, perhaps
>> lending credence to Josh's original grumble...
>> 
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