[Liverpool] Unicode in the console

[Bob Ham]

Hi all,

At a recent meeting we discussed the value of having Unicode characters
display in the console.  I just experienced a perfect example and I
thought I would share it.

I maintain a reading list in a hand-written XML file.  A number of
foreign authors' names contain high-byte Unicode characters.  Editing
this in the console (using Emacs of course :-) is no problem and
people's names show up properly:

  http://pkl.net/~node/misc/utf8-console-usage.png

In that screen shot the first entry, Ervin László, and the second from
last, Stanisław Lem, both contain high-byte Unicode characters (as they
do in this email :-)

Bob

-- 
Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
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