Re: UTF8 (Was: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2))

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> There really is no such thing as a UTF-8 font.  [...]
> OS/X seems to have no problem displaying UTF-8 data sent to a
> terminal window for instance.

Sure.  But the terminal emulator is converting between the
UTF-8-encoded octet stream and whatever encoding the font uses; the
font knows nothing about UTF-8.  It just knows Unicode codepoints
(16-bit, 24-bit, whatever, depending on the font).  Encoding those
codepoints into an octet stream is completely outside the font's
bailiwick.

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