[caret question]

[Marcus Brubaker]

Basically, all of those programs are generally designed to deal with
standard ASCII text.  When they run in to undisplayable characters (such
as 0x7F) how they get shown is up to the program.  Things like gedit and
kmail will give some kind of icon which represents an undisplayable
character.  vi and pico, being traditionally text based, show it in a
different manner.

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 14:09, GDHough wrote:
> I was curious to know if there is a simple explanation for the <caret 
> questionmark> string (7F) in the way it is displayed in various text editors.
> 
> caret_questionmark in:
> 
> 1) gedit displays what looks like a tiny floppy icon
> 2) kmail shows a box
> 3) pico has one infinite line of caret's but only reads three characters
> 4) vi shows the caret and questionmark as though a link (blue)
> 
> Perplexed,
> farmer6re9
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