From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22131 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2010 17:59:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 22084 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Apr 2010 17:59:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,TW_RX,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bw0-f212.google.com (HELO mail-bw0-f212.google.com) (209.85.218.212) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:59:22 +0000 Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so442174bwz.19 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:59:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.155.137 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:59:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1271259908.18480.1369934327@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1271259908.18480.1369934327@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:59:00 -0000 Received: by 10.239.188.133 with SMTP id p5mr426173hbh.130.1271267959033; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:59:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: UTF-8 breaks 'ascii' From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00608.txt.bz2 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. =C2=A0Originally, 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. =C2=A0It was a quick way to tell that "yes, > those line art characters are present at the appropriate char values". 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? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple