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On 02/05/06, Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:57, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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> > Hello. |
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> > |
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> > On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters" |
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> > (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather |
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> > strange way. |
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> > |
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> > Eg.: |
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> > [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm, |
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> > Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg |
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> > |
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> > "Schwarz-Wei�:009f" should read "Schwarz-Weiß". |
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> > |
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> > What I don't understand is, why the "ß" has been (wrongly) |
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> > encoded as �:009f. |
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> > |
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> > Why is that happening? |
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> > |
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> Probably something with UTF-6. From gucharmap: |
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> ß |
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> U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S |
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> General Character Properties |
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> Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase |
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> |
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> Various Useful Representations |
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> |
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> UTF-8: 0xC3 0x9F |
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> Octal escaped UTF-8: \303\237 |
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> Decimal entity reference: ß |
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> |
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> Annotations and Cross References |
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> |
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> Alias names: |
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> • Eszett |
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> Notes: |
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> • German |
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> • uppercase is "SS" |
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> • in origin a ligature of U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S and |
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> U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S |
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> See also: |
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> • U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA |
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Nope, its defintely not the Greek lower case beta. |
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The above assumes that you have already built in the correct system |
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language in your kernel and you have chosen an appropriate character |
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set for your console. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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