From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T23:01:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [bug] irb or xterm crash with UTF-8

Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> wrote:
> [Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk>, 2004-05-19 13.45 CEST]
> > server> irb
> > irb(main):001:0> $KCODE='U'
> > => "U"
> > irb(main):002:0> str = [0x70, 0x80, 0x90].pack('U*')
> > => "p詑
> > 
> > Then it just hangs forever.. 
> 
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> $KCODE='U'
> => "U"
> irb(main):002:0> str = [0x70, 0x80, 0x90].pack('U*').unpack("C*")
> => [112, 194, 128, 194, 144]
> 
> I guess the last character is interpreted as a control character by your
> xterm. Reading the xterm changelog, version 175 (one more than to have) has
> an option to treat characters between 128 and 159 as printable and not
> control.

That makes sense. Thanks.

BTW: any suggestion for a better alternative than xterm? 
hopefully with antialiased font rendering.. (but not qt)

-- 
Simon Strandgaard