[Proj] Unicode

Thomas Knudsen knudsen.thomas at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 12:50:24 PDT 2009


2009/6/8 Gerald I. Evenden <geraldi.evenden at gmail.com>

> As an aside, I dropped the string into vim and it displayed it properly.


Not surprising, since UTF-8 is the standard system wide encoding for Ubuntu
(and many other Linux distributions). UTF-8 was designed (by Unix founder
Ken Thompson - see details on the previously quoted page by Markus Kuhn) in
order to facilitate easy transition from 7-bit ASCII to a more globally
useful  encoding, so really most of the classic Unix command line tools are
supposed to support UTF-8 today.
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