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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ksherlock

text encoding

Open ksherlock opened this issue 9 years ago • 1 comments

LANG=en_US indicates MacRoman. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 indicates UTF8.

Should support UTF 8 since setting up a new MacRoman terminal and using it exclusively is annoying.

ksherlock avatar Feb 03 '16 16:02 ksherlock

current plan:

  • MacRoman is the supported encoding. full stop. MPW Utilities expect it for input and output.
  • need to build a custom version of lib edit since it doesn't like non-utf8 8-bit text
  • to support utf8, add a macroman utility

usage: macroman executable [flags]

creates a pty and silently handles macroman/utf8 (or other?) encoding

ksherlock avatar Jul 28 '16 20:07 ksherlock