On 5/10/11 9:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > In yours, however, it is 0x65 0xcc 0x81 which is U+0065 LATIN SMALL > LETTER E followed by U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT. > > Perhaps Bash does not know how to interpret COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT which > follows a letter...? > > I'm not intimately familiar with this stuff myself, but it looks like > a real bastard to me... I thought the point of UTF-8 was that you could > read it a byte at a time, and know when you encountered a byte that > signified the start of a multi-byte character. But apparently not! > If I'm interpreting this COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT thing properly, the > only indicator that you are in a multi-byte character comes with the > *second* byte, so you have to backtrack. What idiot thought this up?
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