Questions tagged [unicode]
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
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mailx doesn't decode Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
I'm sending mail from python and am trying to read them on the console with mailx. As long as the body of the mail only contains ascii characters the mail is send with charset="ascii" and is ...
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Which interpreter for "Unicode text, UTF-8 text executable"
I'm trying to set up a keybinding for an executable which is in my home. For this, I set the command:
sh -c '\"/path/to/the/executable\" --options'
But, it does not work, and, when I'm ...
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UTF-8 characters in POSIX shell script *comments* - anything against it?
I would like to include a couple of non-ASCII characters in my POSIX shell script comments. Note this is in no way a duplicate of e.g. "Which character encodings are supported by posix?" as ...
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Kernel support for displaying fonts with rotations and reflections (with or without Unicode support)
I am posting to this group because I was wondering whether the Linux kernel can be extended to support the feature of displaying fonts with reflections and rotations, whether these are stored as part ...
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Ignore Accent Differences in Zsh Autocomplete
Suppose I have a directory named cálculo in the current directory. How can I autocomplete its name after typing the starting characters without the accent?
$ cd calc<tab>
$ cd cálculo/
I failed ...
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Fontawesome icons are not pasted correctly
I am using Fedora and installed fontawesome via sudo dnf install fontawesome fonts. Later because it didn't work I also additionally installed the font manually via downloading the zip from the Github ...
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How do I disable UTF-8 in an xterm (or X, really)?
I have a system running Debian unstable where I don't want to have UTF-8 in my xterms (or at all). But I recently discovered that somehow I now have UTF-8 in my xterms and other windows. It might have ...
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ls: single-column vs. multi-column layout, non-Unicode characters in filenames
Create a directory ~/test with abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba files in it.
ls ~/test will list them using multi-column layout:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ...
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Search and replace composed Unicode characters
I have a deep folder structure on a Debian machine
where the directory names and the filenames
contain some "special" characters (ä,ö,ü).
However, these are not in "ISO-8859-1"
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'ls name' and 'ls | grep name' with accent different
I am on Xigmanas (NAS freebsd). I'll explain the situation as simply as possible:
:; set | egrep 'LC_A|LANG'
GDM_LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8
SLIM_LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
:; ls -i ...
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Terminal: Help understanding behavior with UTF-8 text
I am trying to understand the following behavior I am observing on my Ubuntu system. Consider the following two files:
$ hexdump -C 1.txt
00000000 d9 82 d8 a8 d8 a7 d9 86 d9 8a 5e d9 84 d9 86 d8 |.....
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XQuartz xterm UTF-8 resource name
I was using UTF-8 resources names like these ones:
wengé*Background: #321
wengé*Foreground: #ffb
and this was working with XQuartz 2.8.1 through this direct
call like from within the ...
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Make GNOME Characters use different emoji font?
How do I configure which emoji font GNOME Character app uses? Currently it's using Noto Emoji Color.
GNOME 45.3
Arch Linux
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Crossmark symbol (\u274c) doesn't work in debian 12
I have moved from Ubuntu 22.04 to Debian 12, I have a bash function that outputs crossmark if command failed and checkmark if command succeed. The checkmark works, but the crossmark doesn't.
Here is ...
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What puts the terminal in Unicode mode?
I have a Debian server which is not properly displaying Unicode characters when logged in locally, without starting X11. Unicode works after running unicode_start (until the terminal is closed). It ...
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