From: patrol <patrol_boat@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: character encoding confusion
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:19:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8471b2d-27e0-4a7e-bc94-8372d2df3f01@r27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pqyygbpm.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com
On Jul 7, 6:37 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
>
> Remember that C only deals with integer. There is no character type in C.
I thought there was a char data type. Well, not exactly sure the
relevence of that...
> So, what happens when you call: printf("%c",176); ?
Well as I said in my post, I get a shaded square. But printf("%c",
248) yields the degree sign. But like I said, under Latin-1 and UTF-8,
176 is the degree sign, not 248.
> Have a look at setlocale, LC_ALL, etc, and libiconv.
I don't have any experience with this, but I did printf("%d", LC_ALL),
which returned 0. Don't know what that means, but I'm not sure why
locale settings should matter. Aren't Latin-1 and UTF-8 universal
encodings? If a file is encoded in Latin-1, wouldn't the degree sign
map to 176 regardless of locale?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 16:27 character encoding confusion patrol
2010-07-07 22:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-08 0:19 ` patrol [this message]
2010-07-08 1:15 ` Barry Margolin
2010-07-08 15:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-08 1:38 ` John Bokma
2010-07-08 13:24 ` patrol
2010-07-08 7:32 ` Tim X
2010-07-08 13:30 ` patrol
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