How to input non-printing characters in mlterm

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 30 Jun 2010 15:47:27 Avraham Rosenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:46:29PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:22:02PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:
> >...
> >
> > Actually answering the question in the subject line: can you try the
> > command-line option --viaucs (or through the configuration window:
> > "Encoding => Process received strings via unicode") ?
> 
> Hi,
> First, thanks to you and to all those who answered.
> 
> I guess you meant that, instead of starting the mlterm shell with the usual
> LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C mlterm -D=false -E UTF-8 -T "He UTF-8 mlterm"
> -g 120x25+0+0 -w 24 -o 5 -bg WhiteSmoke -fg black , I should try to use
> LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C mlterm --viaucs -D=false -E UTF-8 -T "He
> UTF-8 mlterm" -g 120x25+0+0 -w 24 -o 5 -bg WhiteSmoke -fg black
> 
> and then try the
> catdoc Desktop/L_9_27_06_2010.doc | sed 's/[CtrlVx80-CtrlVxff]//; /^[  
> ]*$/d' | view - or
> catdoc Desktop/L_9_27_06_2010.doc | sed 's/CtrlVxa0//; /^[   ]*$/d' | view
> -
> 
> I tried it and got only question marks (but the offending character had
> been removed). I captured the output in a file u. Then "file u" gave
> "ASCII text". לך תדע!
> If I misunderstood your advice, please correct.
> 
> -To Shlomi: I am ashamed to admit: Since I retired, some 10 years ago and
> also ceased to be involved in the professional life of others, four years
> ago, I could not find something to fuel my motivation to learn Perl, so
> that I forgot even what you teached me in the Tel-Aviv club. 

I see.

> Your advice is
> Chinese for me (good that this list is in English: I would not be able to
> write in good faith "C'est de l'Hebreu pour moi!", the equivalent French
> expression).

Actually, in English the usual idiom is "it's Greek to me". See:

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutual-
incomprehension/

(short URL - http://xrl.us/behomv ).

> -Signature: I stand corected! Thanks. Now, I understand why my MS
> Windows-using friends continued to send me powerpoint presentations,
> despite my request: It was written in bad English!

Another note is that "Excell" is spelt "Excel" (with a single "l" - not a 
double "l".).

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> Cheers, Avraham

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