From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-ascii chars in octal in sub-shell windows Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87aawgdpcj.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263545688 9048 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2010 08:54:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Joseph Brenner Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 09:54:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVhx0-0001m4-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:54:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53297 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVhx0-0008B5-RT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:54:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVht2-00073D-AK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:50:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVhsx-00071w-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:50:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54190 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVhsx-00071r-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:50:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:54480) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVhsw-0005EO-W5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:50:27 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8C214BF4BBE; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.240.119] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #314) id 1NVhst-0007Yj-00; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87aawgdpcj.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19qsM+3qIyRgOVw0GcDpnCXcJbaASHcNXg7CLgO bqznt6ZrddWD6UwoaZWP/7ZF0tofJzZ+Kqg9JgZ2GZR5KvZ99v 7okkwpflG9zsX/TrhywQ== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71236 Archived-At: Am 15.01.2010 um 04:22 schrieb Joseph Brenner: > When running a program that outputs utf-8 characters such as u-umlaut, > in a terminal window I'll see the actual character, but in an emacs > sub-shell I'm seeing the octal form (which looks like: \374). No, you're not running such a programme! The LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH =20= DIAERESIS, =FC, is encoded in UTF-8 as C3BC. In UTF-16 it is 00FC =96 =20= exactly two bytes! Obviously your programme just outputs some ISO =20 Latin dialect or such... -- Mit friedvollen Gr=FC=DFen Pete Banken sprengen hei=DFt Sonne rein lassen.