Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-26 Thread Lee
On 6/26/18, Michael Enright wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Lee wrote: >> I'm still trying to figure utf-8 out, but it seems to me that 0x0 - >> 0xff is part of the utf-8 encoding. > > I don't see how you arrived at this. I screwed up trying to do hex in my head. For whatever reason

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-26 Thread Lee
On 6/26/18, Thomas Wolff wrote: > This encoding scheme is wrong; where did you get it from? Maybe it's the > obsolete UTF-8... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt I thought I saw something about utf-8 being able to handle a 31 bit value.. is that also obsolete/wrong? how abou

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-26 Thread Michael Enright
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Lee wrote: > I'm still trying to figure utf-8 out, but it seems to me that 0x0 - > 0xff is part of the utf-8 encoding. I don't see how you arrived at this. An initial byte of 0xFF is not the initial byte of any valid UTF-8 byte sequence. And it doesn't conform wi

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 25.06.2018 um 20:33 schrieb Lee: On 6/24/18, L A Walsh wrote: Lee wrote: So... keep it simple, set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and use vi or something else that comes with cygwin to create the file and I'll have a file with UTF-8 character encoding - correct? --- The first 127 chara

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-25 Thread Lee
On 6/24/18, L A Walsh wrote: > Lee wrote: >> So... keep it simple, set >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> and use vi or something else that comes with cygwin to create the file >> and I'll have a file with UTF-8 character encoding - correct? > --- > The first 12

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-24 Thread L A Walsh
Lee wrote: So... keep it simple, set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and use vi or something else that comes with cygwin to create the file and I'll have a file with UTF-8 character encoding - correct? --- The first 127 characters of UTF-8 are identical to the first 127 characters of ASCII

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Lee! > On 6/20/18, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Lee! >> >>> I'm looking at >>> https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint >>> and it starts off with >>> Use UTF-8 character encoding. >> >>

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-21 Thread Lee
On 6/20/18, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Lee! > >> I'm looking at >> https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint >> and it starts off with >> Use UTF-8 character encoding. > >> How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-21 Thread Houder
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:12:39, Houder wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:09:59, Lee wrote: > > I'm looking at > > https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint > > and it starts off with > > Use UTF-8 character encoding. > > > > How do I do tha

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-21 Thread Houder
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:09:59, Lee wrote: > I'm looking at > https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint > and it starts off with > Use UTF-8 character encoding. > > How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8 > character encoding _

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Lee! > I'm looking at > https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint > and it starts off with > Use UTF-8 character encoding. > How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8 > character encoding _without_ using file? https:/

Re: UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-20 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 20.06.2018 um 20:09 schrieb Lee: > I'm looking at > https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint > and it starts off with > Use UTF-8 character encoding. > > How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8 > character encoding _wit

UTF-8 character encoding

2018-06-20 Thread Lee
I'm looking at https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint and it starts off with Use UTF-8 character encoding. How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8 character encoding _without_ using file? for whatever it's worth: $ file unicode.html unicode.