Re: print non-kb characters

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 6/28/2011 2:40 AM, Dave Collins wrote:
> > Modern *nix terminals should be using UTF-8 already. On WinXP
> > console, you need to switch to UTF-8 (code page 65001), then just
> > write out the UTF-8 bytes. Something like that, perhaps?
>
> Let's pretend we're waaaay overthinking this.
>
> Let's try this:
>
> print ("-" .. " is a hyphen")
> print ( ?? .. " is an n-dash")

Without more information, we can only guess at what platform or 
software you are using.

You need a UTF-8 aware editor, for starters, or you can use 
escaped character codes in strings.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia