Could be but that isn't how I read it. I thought he wanted it written as Boël.
KvE> how am I to know that is UTF-8?
Read the Wiki page I sent you in a previous message. It explains it way better than I can. Pay attention to what they call the leading byte. That tells the tale and text can be scanned to see if it exists not unlike how pure 7-bit ascii codes can be scanned for. A very powerful concept that all 8-bit codepages lack a simular strategy for. Both ascii and utf-8 readily identify themselves as such and shouldn't require a kludge, especially not one meant for crippled systems ... especially not ones with some bogus level parameter. ;-)
Anyhow if push comes to shove I'll turn it back on or just go back to pure ascii. I have no issues using only 7-bit codes in text messaging.
I can say the same about the lack of the '+' character in your TZUTC kludge. Try sending that to date in the appropriate position as is. I'm willing to bet it fails without the '+' character. I'd suggest you ditch that kludge as it is most definetly broken for half the world. West of prime meridian is okay though since the '-' character is there but given your location that isn't doable. Same with clocks set to UTC such as mine. Real standards (not FTSC) call for it to be expressed as +0000 which is why I decided it was best to turn my TZUTC kludge off rather than argue the point with silly FTSC people with blinders on.
KvE> My default is probably some IBM font
I doubt it. Usually it is a ISO-8859-1 based in Linux distributions by default although utf-8 is starting to become the default these days. I compile my own kernels and have been making utf-8 the default for the last couple of years now. I highly recommend it.
However I have noted that your CHRS kludge's claim to being LATIN-1 produces what appears to be the appropriate utf-8 code at this end so I am guessing that is correct.
Life is good, Maurice
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