Unicode through filesystem tricks

[Erik Bågfors]

2006/1/17, John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>:
> Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:34:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 01:03 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> >>
> >>> $ ls r*
> >>> räksmörgås  räksmörgås
> >>>
> >>> (well, it looks correct on my terminal, that both files have the exact
> >>> same name, in the same directory)
> >> Interestingly to me, the first raksmogas has just-visible the diaeresis
> >> whereas the second one its very visible. Guess thats the difference
> >> between combining and non combining representations.
> >
> > They look exactly the same to me.
> >
> > Wouter van Heyst
>
> The look the same for me on a Mac terminal. In Thunderbird the first one
>  has boxes after the a. (Apparently Thunderbird on Mac doesn't support
> the combining characters, which is interesting because it does on Linux).
> On Ubuntu, the double dots are improperly formated for the first one.
> They sit right on the a, rather than above it.
>
> I'm guessing that Mac actually translates them for display, so they are
> actually the same character.

Linux and firefox. It looks like this.

/Erik
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