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Subject: Re: UTF-8 breaks 'ascii'
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:45:08 -0400
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Kenneth wrote:
> Maybe it shouldn't attempt to display code points 128..255
> since they aren't really ascii.

You're probably right.  Originally, ascii didn't display those code
points; I added it back when a big concern was getting the "correct"
fonts for rxvt-windows and cmd.exe so that line graphics (pstree -G,
etc) would display properly.  It was a quick way to tell that "yes,
those line art characters are present at the appropriate char values".

This is less of a concern now -- because (a) rxvt is, if not deprecated,
at least discouraged, and (b) other terminals like rxvt-unicode, xterm,
and mintty have different and better mechanisms to support such line
art.  And cygwin-in-cmd.exe "just works" too, thanks to improvements in
cygwin's terminal handling code.

So...yeah, I'll remove those in the next release.

--
Chuck

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