On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Emmett Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In Terminal if I type option-g (the copyright symbol) it shows up as \302\251, and the black dot (option-8) is \342\200\242. What is this?

It's UTF-8, shown as octal numeric values for the individual bytes.
What version of OS X?  Those characters show up fine for me in
Terminal on Leopard.  I have LANG set to en_US.UTF-8... but I think
that's the default value, not something I set up.






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