23 Oct
2017
23 Oct
'17
8:32 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never
noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character
and moved on.
I have:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
as part of my environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8...
And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8?
And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I didn't
have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that.
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