Re: Terminal and UTF-8
Re: Terminal and UTF-8
- Subject: Re: Terminal and UTF-8
- From: Manfred Lippert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:46:16 +0100
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It's quite simple, an applicaton has to support UTF8 for this to
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work. Most standard unix applications simply don't do this! That is
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"works" in cat is only because cat simply echos anything raw to the
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terminal, and also takes your raw input.
But the question is: Why does _entering_ of data work well in "cat" and my
own simple "getchar" program and NOT in tcsh, mysql etc.?
For the input these programs aren't affected - are they? I think this should
all be handled in some "input buffer" of the Terminal before the data is
really sent to the program (if the user hits the "return" key).
I don't think that mysql has to support UTF-8 for now, if I can resign
correct ordering of text data. But I am not able to enter it! That's the
main problem and if I see it right, this must be a problem of the Terminal
itself. If I import the UTF-8 data from a file into mysql, all works quite
well.
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UTF8 encoding encodes single letters into 1 up to 6 (or was it even
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more) bytes.
I know that. In the actual Unicode standard, this is reduced to 4 bytes,
IIRC.
Regards,
Mani
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