"UTF-8-demo.txt" may be a binary file. See it anyway?

[Chee Cheng]

I just downloaded Terminator on my Mac running 10.6.8. When I tried
"more UTF-8-demo.txt", I got
'"UTF-8-demo.txt" may be a binary file. See it anyway?' When I said
"yes", I got back a bunch of code, rather than readable text. Do I
need to do any special setup?

Thanks.

[Martin Dorey]

This would let you see it as intended:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Where and how you're supposed to set something like that on Mac OS, I don't know, but I'd add it to ~/.profile.

Thanks.

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[Chee Cheng]

It works. However, some texts from the file are not displayed
correctly. For example, this line

STARGΛ̊TE SG-1, a = v̇ = r̈, a⃑ ⊥ b⃑

In terminator, the small circle and A in "GATE" displayed as two
characters; also, the small dot and the v are displayed as two
characters as well.

Thank you.

[Martin Dorey]

> In terminator, the small circle and A in "GATE" displayed as two
> characters; also, the small dot and the v are displayed as two
> characters as well.

Not for me, with Terminator on Linux. I wouldn't have been surprised, since I don't think we do anything special for combining characters... but then that test doesn't seem to do anything tricky, like cursor movement or position reporting.

[Chee Cheng]

UTF-8-demo.txt is displayed correctly using Mac OS's own Terminal
application. Oh well, it's no big deal.

Thank you.

[Chris Reece]

On 13/09/2011, at 5:48 AM, Martin Dorey wrote:

>> In terminator, the small circle and A in "GATE" displayed as two
>> characters; also, the small dot and the v are displayed as two
>> characters as well.
>
> Not for me, with Terminator on Linux. I wouldn't have been surprised, since I don't think we do anything special for combining characters... but then that test doesn't seem to do anything tricky, like cursor movement or position reporting.

Not that it disproves the problem for Chee Cheng, but it looks acceptable (barring font ugliness) to me, too, on OS X 10.6.8:

[Chee Cheng]

Hi Chris,

Did you do any other configuration besides adding "export
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" to .bash_profile or .bashrc?

Thanks.

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[Chris Reece]

On 13/09/11 08:22, Chee Cheng wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Did you do any other configuration besides adding "export
> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" to .bash_profile or .bashrc?
>
> Thanks.

Actually, I didn't even do that. My environment shows no LC_* settings
at all. I did try it with LC_ALL set as above, too, for completeness,
and again, it just worked.

I'm probably running an older version of Terminator, though. When I get
home from work I'll find out what version I'm running, and then try
again with an up to date copy. I'll let you know.

Cheers,

Chris.

[Martin Dorey]

> it just worked

OP used more(1). Your screenshot used cat(1).

Cheers,

Chris.

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[Chris Reece]

On 13/09/11 11:52, Martin Dorey wrote:
>> it just worked
> OP used more(1). Your screenshot used cat(1).

Good call. I'll try and replicate that, then.