error displaying a 2 byte character Ê

[Martin Pohlack]

On 14.12.2011 22:48, SamLT wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 02:07:11PM +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> On 14 December 2011 08:57, SamLT <sam at sltosis.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> It's been a while since I first noticed that, but I'm not sure really
>>> where to report. You guys sure can help me:)
>>>
>>> When I view or type this character 'Ê' (\uc38a) in a terminal(urxvt
>>> mainly but also in xterm for the record), I see the character 'Ë'
>>> (\uc38b).
>>>
>>> I don't know where to report this.
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>
>> I don't know if it's too soon after waking up, but the codepoints in
>> parenthesis are 쎊 and 쎋, looks like korean characters?
> 
> 
> hum, weird:
> | $ echo -n Ê | hexdump
> | 0000000 8ac3
> | 0000002
> | $ echo -n Ë | hexdump
> | 0000000 8bc3
> | 0000002
> 
> Those are, among other things  I suppose, french characters.

You might be confusing UTF-8 encoding with code point (simulated by
UTF16, little endian here)?

$ echo -n Ê | recode UTF8..UTF16LE | hexdump
0000000 00ca
0000002
$ echo -n Ë | recode UTF8..UTF16LE | hexdump
0000000 00cb
0000002

HTH,
Martin