Re: the unicode arrow

[Pádraig Brady]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

Actually it seems to be randomly mangling the mails.
Seems like some state is not initialized for multibyte routines somewhere.

cheers,
Pádraig.