Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:46:33 -0700, nn wrote: > > > Actually what I want is to write a particular byte to standard output, > > and I want this to work regardless of where that output gets sent to. > > What do you mean "work"? > > Do you mean "display a particular glyph" or something else? > > In bash: > > $ echo -e "\0101" # octal 101 = decimal 65 > A > $ echo -e "\0375" # decimal 253 > � > > but if I change the terminal encoding, I get this: > > $ echo -e "\0375" > ý > > Or this: > > $ echo -e "\0375" > ² > > depending on which encoding I use. > > I think your question is malformed. You need to work out what behaviour > you actually want, before you can ask for help on how to get it. > > > > -- > Steven
Yes sorry it is a bit ambiguous. I don't really care what glyph is, the program reading my output reads 8 bit values expects the binary value 0xFD as control character and lets everything else through as is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
