From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 breaks 'ascii'
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C69670A.5090405@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271259908.18480.1369934327@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On 4/14/2010 11:45 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
>> Maybe it shouldn't attempt to display code points 128..255
>> since they aren't really ascii.
>
> You're probably right. Originally, ascii didn't display those code
> points; I added it back when a big concern was getting the "correct"
> fonts for rxvt-windows and cmd.exe so that line graphics (pstree -G,
> etc) would display properly. It was a quick way to tell that "yes,
> those line art characters are present at the appropriate char values".
Andy Koppe wrote:
> I still find it useful for much the same reason, when testing the
> plethora of supported charsets. How about disabling the extended code
> points by default and having an option for enabling them?
Done, for 1.4.6: I added a new option '--extended'.
--
Chuck
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-14 15:45 Charles Wilson
2010-04-14 17:59 ` Andy Koppe
2010-08-16 16:28 ` Charles Wilson [this message]
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2010-04-14 13:51 Nellis, Kenneth
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