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Re: UTF-8 breaks 'ascii'
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:27:54 -0400
- Subject: Re: UTF-8 breaks 'ascii'
- References: <1271259908.18480.1369934327@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On 4/14/2010 11:45 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
>> Maybe it shouldn't attempt to display code points 128..255
>> since they aren't really ascii.
>
> You're probably right. Originally, ascii didn't display those code
> points; I added it back when a big concern was getting the "correct"
> fonts for rxvt-windows and cmd.exe so that line graphics (pstree -G,
> etc) would display properly. It was a quick way to tell that "yes,
> those line art characters are present at the appropriate char values".
Andy Koppe wrote:
> I still find it useful for much the same reason, when testing the
> plethora of supported charsets. How about disabling the extended code
> points by default and having an option for enabling them?
Done, for 1.4.6: I added a new option '--extended'.
--
Chuck
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