On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 18:16:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] > Works fine for me in dash as well as in od in a console with cp437: > > $ od -tx1 > <alt-1><^J><^D> > =E2=98=BA > 0000000 e2 98 ba 0a > 0000004 > $ od -tx1 > <alt-1><bs><^J><^D> > 0000000 0a > 0000001 > $ od -tx1 > <alt-254><^J><^D> > =E2=96=A0 > 0000000 e2 96 a0 0a > 0000004 > $ od -tx1 > <alt-254><bs><^J><^D> > 0000000 0a > 0000001
I could NOT believe your reply ... until I noticed that the NumLock had been switched ON ... Oh J. ... Switching NumLock OFF: Using Windows Console (cp437) 64-@@ od -tx1 <alt-254><^J><^D> ■ 0000000 e2 96 a0 0a 0000004 64-@@ dash # enter alt-254 $ echo ■ | od -tx1 0000000 e2 96 a0 0a 0000004 $ exit 64-@@ bash --noediting => LANG = en_US.UTF-8 64-@@ od -tx1 <alt-254><^J><^D> ■ 0000000 e2 96 a0 0a 0000004 64-@@ Ai, ai, ai, my bad. My apologies! Signing off from keyboard NOW! R. Henri ====== -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple