Terminal really supports UTF-8?

Alexander Toresson alexander.toresson at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 14:04:31 CET 2005


On 12/29/05, Lee Marks <leemarks at netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
> The manual says Terminal "implements an UTF-8 mode" which I presume
> means that UTF-8 is on by default?
>
> However I've had no luck getting it to work so far - only normal
> ascii characters get displayed properly, the rest are jibberish, but
> the kind of jibberish you'd expect from an app that is just
> interpreting the text stream as plain ascii.
>   [Plus I'm using a unicode font that has all the glyphs I need (ie.
> I'm not seeing boxes) so it definitely isn't a font issue.]
>
> Would anybody know how to get utf-8 working in Terminal? [Or at least
> confirm that this isn't supported!]
>

Terminal does support utf-8. Are you sure that it's Terminal that
you've got there?

Regards, Alexander Toresson



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