On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:18:30 bill lam <[email protected]> wrotes: > On further testing, it appeared that the xclip itself cannot handle > utf8. On replacing xclip with xsel, it now works without problem. What > problem did you encounter in using xsel?
I had problems when pasting some characters like the accented ones and others like "ñ" or "ç" on xterm. I'm glad you have it working properly now. > I prefer \034 to \266 as delimiter, since the later is a 2 byte > sequence in utf8 encoding. I'm not sure if tr can handle that. Why > choose \034? Because awk uses it. Probably it's a better choice and it seems to work well. I make the change. > on ubuntu, sh is not bash; it is the old sh. I haven't noticed about that, ok then. Regards, Delta
