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From: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
Subject: Re: Odd encoding issue with UTF-8 + gettext yields ? on non-ASCII
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:14:36 +0000
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>>  printf("%s\n", some_nonsense_string);
>>
>> should always just work.
>
> Ok, so apparently
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <locale.h>
>
> int main(void)
> {
>        setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
>        printf("%.11s\n", "Author: \277");
> 	return 0;
> }

On my FreeBSD box (various locales tested) I get the following bytes
output:

41 75 74 68 6f 72 3a 20 bf 0a

> does not work.

What's wrong?

--Marcin