Bash and Unicode

[Jakub Jankiewicz]

Hi,

I don't know where to ask this or report a bug about it.

I find an issue with Unicode characters (polish) using figlet

$ figlet ó

  /\/|____
 |/\/|__ /
  /_\ |_ \
 / _ \___/
/_/ \_\

ó is 243, I can call ord(u'ó') form python but not from bash

$ python -c 'print ord(u"ó")'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 2 found

and it display 2 characters I found that they are:

195+179

and the reason for this is I got:

echo -n ó | python -c 'import sys;
for c in sys.stdin.read():
    print ord(c)'
195
179

in my system. I thought that it's something with bash, so I try to call
exec function from C (I think it don't use shell).

#include <unistd.h>

void main() {
    execl("/usr/bin/figlet-figlet", "", "ó", NULL);
}

and got the same result. What's wrong? Anybody know how to fix it?
Where should I report this. Or maybe I have something wrong with my
system.

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with XFce.


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Jakub Jankiewicz, Web Developer
http://jcubic.pl

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