Re: utf8 and solaris

[Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:43:54PM +0530, Balaji.Ramdoss wrote:
> Folks, well this is not on linux. I have an issue in Sun Solaris box 
> where octal values gets displayed instead of symbols like "^","|" as 
> \136, \075.
> This happens if I set my LC_CTYPE to en_US.UTF-8 locale and I have the 
> "set verbose" on.
> The OS/hardware is
> SunOS irvhomer 5.9 Generic_118558-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
> and the tcsh is
> tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (sparc-sun-solaris) options 
> wide,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,color,filec
> 
> Will really appreciate if someone has any possible work around to this 
> solaris/tcsh bug ?

1. Does your version of Solaris actually have a locale named
   en_US.UTF-8? If not you need to figure out how to create it.

2. What program is displaying octal codes, etc.? If it's tcsh the
   problem is most likely just that tcsh sucks. :) As far as I know it
   doesn't support UTF-8. You might be able to get it to display the
   characters with the same options that make 8bit encodings work, but
   I suspect it will be hard to interactively edit the commandline.

Rich


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