On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:27:16 -0400 Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote:
> --As of November 8, 2011 7:58:04 PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier is > alleged to have said: > > > So, what would be the safest bet as far as the most "universal" > > representation for these characters? Something I've long wondered > > about when I've e-mailed people and copied/pasted these characters > > (are they really seeing what I'm seeing?). :-) > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > These days, the safest bet is UTF-8, or some other Unicode character > set, in something that can convey what character set it is in. > (Email can, depending on the mail client.) > > Not that Unicode is universal yet, but it designed to be (and is, > generally) a solution to the 'multiple character encodings' problem. > (By, of course, defining a new encoding.) It has a decent amount of > traction, and in a decade or so - once other options have been firmly > depreciated - I'd expect we could start discussing whether to switch > ls to using it by default. ;) > > All this is of course if you *must* go beyond 7-bit ASCII. (Which > all forms of Unicode is designed to be a strict superset of.) That sounds sane and sensible. :-) I've adjusted my environment to include: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 And also adjusted my console configuration to display these characters: font8x14="iso-8x14" font8x16="iso-8x16" font8x8="iso-8x8" And, last but not least, aliased "ls" to ensure these characters will actually be displayed: alias ls='ls -Fw' Looking good here now: conrads:~$ cd "Music/Progressive Rock/Yes/The Yes Album" conrads:~/Music/Progressive Rock/Yes/The Yes Album$ ls *03* Yes - The Yes Album - 03 - Starship Trooper: a. Life Seeker - b. Disillusion - c. Würm.mp3 Many thanks to everyone for all the very helpful, useful information. -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
