in reply to The Queensrÿche Situation

Many question, but I'd be surprised if the default font of your terminal supported a fictitious° character like ÿ.

See also Metal Umlaut! :)

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

°) well maybe not fictitious but very rare. But the Latin 1 code is 255 which answers another question.

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Btw its not an umlaut!

In German its a medieval handwriting ligature of ij, a diphthong still found in Dutch (see rijk), those sounds are written ei in modern German (see Reich)

In French trema accents are used to pronounce adjacent vowels separately (see Citroën or naïve). English imported some of them.

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Re^2: The Queensrÿche Situation
by Tux (Canon) on Oct 19, 2014 at 19:16 UTC

    The Dutch ij is still regarded as a single syllable, but written as ij. Even in official documents the ij has been banned. I however bet that every Dutch person will have no trouble reading the ij when ij was meant and vice versa.

    I think that many of you won't even see the difference in their browser (unless off course ij is not represented in your font).


    Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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      A single letter, really?

      Interesting IJ_(digraph)

      In standard German single vowels are always monophthongs.

      At least I know now where the Swiss canton of Schwyz got its y from :)

      Cheers Rolf

      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

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Re^2: The Queensrÿche Situation
by Rodster001 (Pilgrim) on Oct 19, 2014 at 18:13 UTC
    Sorry for the confusing nature of this post. I suppose it really just comes down to this. Which of these are utf8? 
            81      Q       Q
        117     u       u
        101     e       e
        101     e       e
        110     n       n
        115     s       s
        114     r       r
        195     {c3}
        191     {bf}
        99      c       c
        104     h       h
        101     e       e


        81      Q       Q
        117     u       u
        101     e       e
        101     e       e
        110     n       n
        115     s       s
        114     r       r
        255     {ff}
        99      c       c
        104     h       h
        101     e       e

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        Right. So #1 is utf-8. Then #2 is utf-16?

        So then why does this: 

        
use utf8;
my $string = "Queensrÿche";
no utf8;

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        Produce this: 
                81      Q       Q
        117     u       u
        101     e       e
        101     e       e
        110     n       n
        115     s       s
        114     r       r
        255     {ff}
        99      c       c
        104     h       h
        101     e       e
 - this is utf8

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        When this: 
        
#use utf8;
my $string = "Queensrÿche";
#no utf8;

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        Produces this: 
                81      Q       Q
        117     u       u
        101     e       e
        101     e       e
        110     n       n
        115     s       s
        114     r       r
        195     
       191     
       99      c       c
        104     h       h
        101     e       e
 - this is NOT utf8

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        If the two bytes are "there", why is "use utf8" yielding a dec 255 for the "ÿ" which is not valid utf8?

        "The first 128 characters (US-ASCII) need one byte. The next 1,920 characters need two bytes to encode." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

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