Re: UTF-8 on stdout?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> It's an interesting problem.  If you enter:
>
> dia --credits |sort
>
> how is sort(1) supposed to know what's incoming?  It doesn't guess; it
> assumes, and unless the answer is 7-bit ascii, it assumes wrong.  Its
> only defense is, it's got a lot of good company.

Actually, czyborra mentions as one of the strengths of utf-8 that you can
run it through an old-style sort and get the same sorting as on UCS-4
chars.

Very good run-through, though hard to read in places.  Finally rid me of
confusing Unicode and UTF-8.

-Lars

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