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Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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I am making another remapper like xkb, sxhkd, xmodmap etc. because I don't like the other ones and in this one I want a more simple and terse syntax that I find nice to use and to make an API that ...
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So, I'm using Linux Mint 21.3 with MATE 1.26.0. I've noticed that my system supports a number of nonstandard flag emoji. I'm wondering what part of the system is responsible for this, if this is ...
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Do gibberish characters found in EFI variables serve any purpose? Out of curiosity, i am trying to read out EFI variables. Specifically ones related to the booting mechanism. Under /sys/firmware/efi/...
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Is it advisable to have or not Byte Order Mark (BOM) in UTF-8 text files on Linux? Is it correct to say byte order (even for multi-byte characters) is already strictly defined/fixed in UTF-8 standard? ...
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In Perl, /a/i matches both A and a, so I don't have to write /A|a/. What is the easy way to write /４|4/ ? Yes, I'm talking about $ unicode ４ 4|grep U+ U+FF14 FULLWIDTH DIGIT FOUR U+0034 DIGIT FOUR ...
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My input data is as follows (as generated by hexdump): 000000f0 69 61 6e e2 80 99 73 20 65 79 65 73 20 61 62 72 |ian...s eyes abr| When I open this html () file in Firefox, it displays these ...
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This question is closely related to: How to insert text before the first line of a file?. I deliberately made the title similar to that question to highlight this. Except the target file is UTF-8 with ...
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I have two computers installed slightly differently : A: KUbuntu based on 22.04.3 LTS B: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS + KDE somehow added after I noticed between the 2 that some (not all) Unicode chars where ...
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I am looking for a cross platform way to check if I am using a terminal emulator (with support for unicode characters) or a TTY session (with only support for ASCII chars). I initially tried to use if ...
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I am trying to learn how to insert the mapsto (↦, U+21A6) character in groff. I am trying to use this code to insert the character \[u21A6] But I get the following error message and nothing is ...
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I'm trying to set up a keybinding for an executable which is in my home. For this, I set the command: sh -c '\"/path/to/the/executable\" --options' But, it does not work, and, when I'm ...
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I would like to include a couple of non-ASCII characters in my POSIX shell script comments. Note this is in no way a duplicate of e.g. "Which character encodings are supported by posix?" as ...
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Suppose I have a directory named cálculo in the current directory. How can I autocomplete its name after typing the starting characters without the accent? $ cd calc<tab> $ cd cálculo/ I failed ...
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I am using Fedora and installed fontawesome via sudo dnf install fontawesome fonts. Later because it didn't work I also additionally installed the font manually via downloading the zip from the Github ...
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I have a system running Debian unstable where I don't want to have UTF-8 in my xterms (or at all). But I recently discovered that somehow I now have UTF-8 in my xterms and other windows. It might have ...
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Create a directory ~/test with abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba files in it. ls ~/test will list them using multi-column layout: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ...
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I have a deep folder structure on a Debian machine where the directory names and the filenames contain some "special" characters (ä,ö,ü).  However, these are not in "ISO-8859-1" ...
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I am on Xigmanas (NAS freebsd). I'll explain the situation as simply as possible: :; set | egrep 'LC_A|LANG' GDM_LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 SLIM_LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 :; ls -i ...
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I am trying to understand the following behavior I am observing on my Ubuntu system. Consider the following two files: $ hexdump -C 1.txt 00000000 d9 82 d8 a8 d8 a7 d9 86 d9 8a 5e d9 84 d9 86 d8 |.....
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I was using UTF-8 resources names like these ones: wengé*Background: #321 wengé*Foreground: #ffb and this was working with XQuartz 2.8.1 through this direct call like from within the ...
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I have moved from Ubuntu 22.04 to Debian 12, I have a bash function that outputs crossmark if command failed and checkmark if command succeed. The checkmark works, but the crossmark doesn't. Here is ...
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I have a Debian server which is not properly displaying Unicode characters when logged in locally, without starting X11. Unicode works after running unicode_start (until the terminal is closed). It ...
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$ ls cn* cn blah blah.txt $ ls cn\ * ls: cannot access 'cn *': No such file or directory $ ls cn*|hexdump -C 00000000 63 6e e2 80 85 62 6c 61 68 c2 a0 62 6c 61 68 2e |cn...blah..blah.| 00000010 74 ...
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I've run into a bit of a weird behaviour that I don't fully understand with ls and Chinese filenames. I'm running macOS 13.6.1 with SIP enabled (no core OS modifications), MacPorts installed, and US ...
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Try this for an output of |Ü| X|: echo 'Ü X' | awk '{printf("|% 2s|% 2s|\n", $1, $2)}' Obviously awk counts the byte length, not the character length of the Ü, so the count is 2 and no left ...
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I found that groff uses different ways to indicate bold text for the utf8 output format. On FreeBSD 14, groff emits escape codes for a terminal (ESC, [1m): $ printf ".Dd today\n.Sh NAME\n" | ...
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MB_CUR_MAX is defined by glibc as 'a positive integer expression that is the maximum number of bytes in a multibyte character in the current locale.' If I print the value I get 1. I assume that this ...
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To automate the command line creation of hundreds of directories in IMAP maildirs, I would need to be able to convert UTF-8 strings to UTF-7-IMAP on the fly. In php, I found a way to do it with a ...
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I have a zsh shell (with oh-my-zsh default config). Why I ls filenames with special characters, they are printed as: ''$'\316\262''=0.35-L=32-m=10.jld2' This should be: β=0.35-L=32-m=10.jld2 but the ...
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I have a program that prints Unicode half-block characters (U+2580, U+2584), but on Debian 10 terminals (just the fullscreen terminal, no X), it's printing diamonds instead of half-blocks. The two ...
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I'm running a new install of Ubuntu 23.04 with cinnamon desktop 5.6.7 Typing Ctrl-Shift-u in a terminal does nothing unles the next character is another u; then the underlined u appears and I can ...
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ctrlshiftu followed by the hex value of a Unicode character enters that character. For example, ctrlshiftu41 enters 'A', whose value is 0x41 in hex and 65 in decimal. There's also the compose key, ...
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I use expand to expand tabs to spaces. For utf8 files expand doesn't work correctly. E.g. in ć\ta tab is expanded to 6 spaces while in a\ta to 7 spaces. How do I make it work for utf8 files?
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Are lemniscates, ∞, allowed in UTF-8 Encoded files? I am hoping that students with less than six months of computer programming experience can use a search engine to type something like "is ...
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I'm trying to display Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane (Plane 1) glyphs in xterm. Those glyphs are in the U+010000..U+01FFFF range (https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-15.0.01/...
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This is kind of a spin off from an older question I asked. Here's the screenshot from that question: In the bottom left is URxvt, and you can see a lighting bolt-like icon at the beginning of the ...
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Context (skip, if you don't care; read, if you suspect I'm totally on the wrong track) For an embedded system with small memory, I want to generate fonts which contain only those glyphs actually ...
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For pasting text, in urxvt/rxvt-unicode one can use middle button to paste PRIMARY selection. I can do such Mouse-Middle-Click paste in my local urxvt terminal and even a remote server, in Chinese/...
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I have written a small code snippet to check the aws cli version #!/usr/bin/env bash if [ -e "/usr/local/bin/aws" ]; then myAWS="/usr/local/bin/aws" else ...
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I was just writing a C++] program that uses the box characters to display information.  I ran the program on macOS and used the terminal app and it worked fine. When I switched to Debian Linux using ...
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When I installed Linux I set my locale to en_US.UTF-8. However I want to override some but not all of the settings in that locale. Specifically, I would like the Measurement to be Metric instead of ...
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ascii command in Linux is fast and great. It allows us to search for a character or for a code point and returns all relevant results for a given search. Is there something similar for ASCII extended (...
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I'm on Debian. I have a file called Sóanr.jpg. According to https://emojidissector.com/, this is made of the following code points: S 0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S o 006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O ...
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I want to print the first two arguments of a bash function, with the unicode character \u2263 on each side using a two space separation. The thing is that the final unicode must display at column 70. ...
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I was working on a keymap script (map keys from one language keyboard layout to another). And after a lot of hard time trying to get everything working I found out that different characters are ...
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I noticed something interesting in one of my directories: $ ls -li total 36 2625309 drwxrwxr-x 2 dotancohen dotancohen 4096 Jul 4 2022 Español 2625385 drwxrwxr-x 2 dotancohen dotancohen 4096 Jul ...
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I am slightly annoyed with some emojis. So I was wondering, how could I remove/prevent some emojis from being rendered at all? Replacing them with some other emoji like cute cat face could work too. ...
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I tried to recover lost files from an exFAT thumb drive with the testdisk package on linux. It was very good at finding deleted files. However as I went through the entries, I saw weird entries. The ...
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I’m using US and RU layouts, and while I can use Ctrl+Shift+u, when I have US layout selected, when I try to use it with RU layout selected, it just doesn’t work. Didn’t find anything related to it in ...
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I'm looking for a simple, generic way to input arbitrary unicode characters in a text document on the terminal(e.g. in a terminal editor). A basic method I can imagine is having a simple text(utf-8) ...
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