From: Edward H. Trager (ehtrager@umich.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 23 2004 - 13:49:34 EDT
On Friday 2004.04.23 09:11:30 -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:12:57 -0400, "Edward H. Trager"
> <ehtrager@umich.edu> said:
>
> > There is an issue that you might confront with these terminal-based tools
> > on
> > Windows and on Mac OSX that I myself don't know how to solve, and that is
> > that
> > I don't know how to switch to a UTF-8 locale on either Windows or Mac
> > OS-X so
> > that terminal programs such as Xterm or the Cygwin terminal would display
> > the UTF-8
> > characters beyond ASCII correctly. My own solution to this problem was
> > trivially
> > easy: don't use Windows or Mac OS X for multilingual database work; use
> > Linux
> > instead.
>
> Wow -- I'd hate to see your idea of a non-trivial solution!
Well, yes, perhaps that sounds funny. But I work in a lab where we have all
three OSes - Windows 2K, Mac OS X, and SuSE Linux. As a developer and sysadmin,
I happen to have the luxury that I can pretty much use whatever I want and that tends to be Linux
which over time I have found works the best, for me at least, for dealing with
UTF-8 data (or any other format of Unicode data, since its easy to convert to UTF-8
on Linux). People tend to use what they know best, and I know the *nix stuff better
than anything else. Since Mac OS X has BSD under the hood, I find I can also get
a lot done without much pain on OS X even though I've spent very little time using the OS.
Windows, on the other hand, is just plain annoying
(Windows' lack of a decent shell and command-line tools is probably
what makes the OS most annoying).
>
> > Perhaps someone else on this list can tell us how to get Apple's terminal
> > application
> > or xterm running on OS X to display UTF-8 characters correctly (probably
> > just needs
> > the correct UTF-8 based locale setting. There also must be some
> > solutions to this
> > problem on Windows terminals too, I just don't know what they are.
>
> Theoretically, doing 'chcp 65001' in cmd.exe should make it work to the
> extent that 'cat' will then work correctly on a utf-8 file. This works
> for me but some people report issues. The only other major Windows
> shell, 4nt, does not work for me with utf-8 at all. Since cmd.exe is a
> horrible shell, I would suggest:
>
> 1 -- doing everything from vim (preferred, of course :))
> 2 -- doing everything from regular windows gui tools, which have been
> unicode-freindly since forever.
>
> chcp 65001 may work for you, though.
I've tried that, but doesn't seem to change much.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> --
> Benjamin Peterson
> bjsp123@imap.cc
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