Re: Issue with handling the degree character

On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:06, Bill Frantz wrote:

> The degree symbol is represented as the single character 0xa1 in
> this source.
>
>
> It seems to me that something in either reading the file or the
> quasi-parser is converting the degree symbol to a 0x00b0. Also
> something is happening to the Unicode value between the source
> file and the representation of the constant at run time
> expanding it to 5 characters.
>
> I can live with this issue, but is this what is supposed to happen?


Quick notes:

$ echo ° | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 | hexdump -C
00000000  b0 0a                                             |?.|
$ echo ° | iconv -f utf-8 -t macroman | hexdump -C
00000000  a1 0a                                             |?.|

° is represented as 0xb0 in iso-8859-1 and also U+00B0 as Unicode, and  
as 0xa1 in MacRoman.

Your Java is probably defaulting to MacRoman; this affects E source  
files as well as file.getText() etc. To change this,
	java -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 (or whatever encoding you want)
	rune -J-Dfile.encoding=utf-8

I make no statements here as to what *should* be.

-- 
Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>