This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Displaying extended ASCII characters in output of octal dump as hexadecimal


On 10/9/2012 7:25 PM, Olumide wrote:
When I run octal dump (od) I notice that extended ASCII characters are
displayed incorrectly as ordinary characters. For example, the extended
characters 191, 196, and 218 are displayed as '?' , 'D' and 'Z'
respectively. I thought od was 'anding' the each character with 127, but
I've been informed that this because my shell/terminal is not configured
to display non-ASCII characters.

How can I configure Cygwin to display extended characters as in
hexadecimal format?

Thanks

- Olumide


are you sure ?


assuming your 191 is decimal so BF exadecimal

$ cat prova.txt |od -c
0000000 277 \n
0000003

od produces the same output under mintty (TERM=XTERM)
and console (TERM=CYGWIN)
and its output is in octal.

Marco




-- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]