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Re: the unicode arrow


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: the unicode arrow
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:39:59 +0100
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Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> This was discussed last month.  The verdict is no.
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html
> 
> This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which
> make the discussion difficult to follow. Something along the way has
> converted all the non-ascii characters into 'Ã', e.g. Pádraig into PÃdraig.

Interestingly it's just that particular mail that seems to be mangled.
Note the "l" alias mentioned there can't take parameters, so I'll
paste an l() function here to see if it has the same issue:

# quick dir listing with latest files/dirs at the bottom,
# prettify symlink arrows.
# using eval to precompute the tput sequences.
eval "
l() {
  ls -lrt --color=always \"address@hidden" |
  sed 's/ -> / $(tput bold)▪▶$(tput sgr0) /'
}"

If the above is mangled in the archives, one can get l() from:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/settings/.bashrc

> Anyone know who maintains lists.gnu.org (or is this a mailman/mhonarc
> issue)?

cheers,
Pádraig.




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