* [9fans] name that character set
@ 2005-01-06 20:01 Steve Simon
2005-01-06 20:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-06 21:03 ` Russ Cox
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From: Steve Simon @ 2005-01-06 20:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Anyone know which character set the hex codes 0xc2 0x80
reprisent the UK currency symbol £?
I get these in emails with headers:
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
It cannot be unicode as that uses 0x00a3 and anyway the
remainder of the mesage is in what looks like ASCII.
I played with tcs(1) but couldn't get a sensible
translation.
Where do I look?
-Steve
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* Re: [9fans] name that character set
2005-01-06 20:01 [9fans] name that character set Steve Simon
@ 2005-01-06 20:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-06 20:41 ` boyd, rounin
2005-01-06 21:03 ` Russ Cox
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From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2005-01-06 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
it doesn't look like such thing exists...
here's what i did in unix:
mirtchov@fbsd$ iconv --list | sed 's/..$//' > iconv
mirtchov@fbsd$ unicode 0xc2 > test
mirtchov@fbsd$ unicode 0x80 >> test
mirtchov@fbsd$ for i in `cat iconv`; do echo -n "$i "; iconv -f $i -t UTF8 test; done | grep £
...
and got no matches. i may have botched something too :)
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* Re: [9fans] name that character set
2005-01-06 20:01 [9fans] name that character set Steve Simon
2005-01-06 20:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
@ 2005-01-06 21:03 ` Russ Cox
2005-01-06 21:34 ` Rob Pike
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From: Russ Cox @ 2005-01-06 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
0xc2 0x80 is the utf encoding of Runeerror.
some plan9 tool has parsed whatever used to
be there as utf, but since it was invalid utf,
the tool replaced it with Runeerror. try looking
at the raw mbox file, using /mail/fs/mbox/1/raw
or not using upas/fs at all.
russ
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:01:32 0000, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> Anyone know which character set the hex codes 0xc2 0x80
> reprisent the UK currency symbol £?
>
> I get these in emails with headers:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
> Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
>
> It cannot be unicode as that uses 0x00a3 and anyway the
> remainder of the mesage is in what looks like ASCII.
> I played with tcs(1) but couldn't get a sensible
> translation.
>
> Where do I look?
>
> -Steve
>
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