Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-04-12 01:41, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote:
> > im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read
> > power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page,
> > the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a
> > dpkg-reconfigure locales issue?
>
> It could also be due to the browser not copying certain characters
> correctly to the clipboard.
>
> Let's start at the beginning, which output do you get from this command:
>
>   locale
>
> If you use an utf8-based locale, e.g. "en_US.UTF-8", then the following
> command should print the numbers 1-5 in superscript:
>
>   echo -e "\xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5"
>
> What do you get?


In xfce terminal, it works perfectly.  In urxvt (with font 
fixed-medium), the ^4 is weird looking, but pasting it into 
Iceweasel makes it look correct.

~$ echo -e "\xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5"
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$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

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