Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:11 +0000
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Klaus Ethgen writes ("Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release
> critical?)"):
> > No, it is not. 00a3 is just not a utf-8 character, it is unicode.
> > To get a correct utf-8 character you need to print \x{c2a3} and
> > then isutf8 is happy.
>
> When LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8, programs which attempt to print unicode
> characters to stdout should use UTF-8. That's what LC_TYPE means.
By the way,
$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 echo 'puts \x00a3\n'|tclsh|isutf8
$
$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 echo 'puts \x00a3\n'|tclsh|xxd -p
c2a30a0a
$
But RMS told the world not to use Tcl.
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