Special Character Problem

[Ed Greshko]

Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:

> I understand your point, but we have a little piece of documentation 
> that describes the character as ALT-248 instead of ALT-0248, and for 
> years under Windows I've gotten the em-dash (or a reasonable facsimile 
> thereof with ALT-151). I just tried both of those characters with out 
> success a moment ago.  Here's what the hexdump has told me: the Windows 
> text file containing the character gives me hex b0 for the character, 
> but the Fedora version of the text file gives me a 16-bit number "c2 b0" 
> as copied from my terminal window. So it looks like it could be an 8-bit 
> vs 16-bit (UTF-8 vs UTF-16?) issue...

I don't think so since UTF16 is quite uncommon.  I'll have to check it out 
though.

> Any further ideas on how to get around this?

Well, if you can, maybe you can try sniffing the wire with wireshark to see 
what is really being sent?

Ed

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