Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:48:48 +0000
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20190215154848.7D3822203F@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
| Sending to you directly so you see a version that Mailman doesn't touch.
That's not actually guaranteed, though it worked ... I do mail
filtering that drops duiplicates, so which I see would depend uppn
which arrived first.
| Yes, see `dict -d foldoc caret'.
Good to see I remember some things! It is kind of interesting
(and I'm sure there's a reason) that the things I saw as A-caret
(and you explained why) appeared in the message I got back from the
list as A-umlaut instead!
| I think that's because nmh knows the text has two bytes representing
| each guillemet, and iconv(3) says it can't translate either of them,
| Unicode U+00AB or U+00BB, to the C locale so nmh renders each two bytes
| as a single `?' byte.
Yes, that is what I expected to have happened.
| The UTF-8 encoding of U+00AB is 0xc2 0xab.
| This is because [...]
Thanks, though I understand how to do UTF-8 (and undo it). How
to use things that do it properly, to achieve the desired outcome,
is an entirely different matter.
| $ show | grep \\\\x |
| > tr -dc 0-9a-f | tr a-f A-F |
| > sed 's/.*/16i&0AP/' | dc
Produced exactly the right string. (I can pattern match, I'd have
to get someone else to tell me what it says though!)
Before I deleted the ouout from this reply, all there was was another
mess...
kre
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