Re: Terminal not displaying UTF-16 characters properly

> On Jan 18, 2018, at 4:51 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 19, 2018, at 2:15, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Subversion. So maybe it isn’t a Terminal thing, per se.
>> 
>> $ svn info
>> svn: E155007: '/Users/carl' {U+306F}{U+4F5C}{U+696D}{U+30B3}{U+30D2}{U+30FC}{U+3066}{U+306F}{U+3042}{U+308A}{U+307E}{U+305B}{U+3093}
>> 
>> The above is supposed to say:
>> 
>> svn: E155007: '/Users/carl’ is not a working copy
> 
> Mystery solved.
> 
> If you check the characters output by subversion you get:
> 
> {U+306F} は
> {U+4F5C} 作
> {U+696D} 業
> {U+30B3} コ
> {U+30D2} ヒ
> {U+30FC} ー
> {U+3066} て
> {U+306F} は
> {U+3042} あ
> {U+308A} り
> {U+307E} ま
> {U+305B} せ
> {U+3093} ん
> 
> From https://codepoints.net
> 
> Which reads:
> 
> '/Users/carl' は作業コヒーてはありません
> 
> it actually should be:
> 
> '/Users/carl' は作業コピーではありません
> 
> but I suspect there are representation issues for compound glyphs and I just woke up so that part is left for later.
> 
> Basically it is the Japanese way of saying:
> 
> '/Users/carl’ is not a working copy
> 
> So svn is talking Japanese to you. It is not an encoding issue, it is a language setting issue.

Well now, that there’s the gall-darned craziest thing I ever did see! Japanese?!

I noticed that the LANG env var wasn’t set in the shell I was using. Setting it to “en_US.UTF-8” restores sanity.

Thanks for the sleuthing. I never would have guessed.

-Carl

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