Re: accents

2011-05-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/10/11 9:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> Is the accented character >>> a single-byte character, or a multi-byte character, in your locale? >> >> a multi-byte character, i think >> How to confirm that ? (Keep in mind as you read my answers that I know very little more than anyone else about Un

Re: accents

2011-05-15 Thread Andreas Schwab
Chet Ramey writes: > 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. > > That's not valid UTF-8, since UTF-8 requires that the shortest sequence > be used to encode a character

Re: accents

2011-05-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/15/11 6:38 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Chet Ramey writes: > >> 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. >> >> That's not valid UTF-8, since UTF-8 requires that t

Re: accents

2011-05-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/15/11 6:16 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > The other difference is that drag-and-drop on Mac OS X (at least dropping > from the finder) produces full pathnames. I was able to reproduce display > problems (which I haven't yet investigated) using that, but not using > tab completion in the way you did