Place Of Interest
Day 3 on Windows XP. I note the Mozilla does not display the ⌘ (a.k.a. Place Of Interest) sign on Planet Intertwingly. I had put that in as a placeholder for all feeds that do not supply an icon. I try Opera. It doesn’t show up there either. I try Safari. Also not there.
On Mozilla, I see a question mark. Opera and Safari show a rectangle.
The problem turns out that Windows XP does come with a proper Unicode font. Jacques Distler has some recommendations.
Even with the font installed, I still see a rectangle in putty -cygterm, even though I have utf-8 turned on, and have :set encoding=utf-8
in my .vimrc
. Copying and pasting that rectangle to an HTML textarea shows the corect symbol, however.
I’ve noticed other oddities in Cygwin, like:
Command completion for
scp
andrsync
across machines doesn’t work. I’ve had that since Dapper. When you are setting up a machine by copying files across a network, you tend to notice things like this. You notice it a lot.if you create a symbolic link of
Desktop
to/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/Administrator/Desktop/
, and then cd to~/Desktop
andmv
a file to “..
”, the file doesn’t go to your Cygwin home directory, instead it goes to your Windows home directory.if you do a gem install of
libxml-ruby
, it will first tell you that you don’t havelibm
installed. What that really means is that you don’t havegcc
installed. Get past that, and you get a message that you don’t havelibiconv
installed, which means that you don’t havelibiconv
installed. An iteration or two more, and you have a clean build. You can verify this by issuing:$ ls -l /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-*/lib/xml/libxml_so.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 rubys None 103424 Feb 14 14:06 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.2.0/lib/xml/libxml_so.so
Then go into
irb
and tryrequire 'xml/libxml'
. The response:LoadError: No such file or directory - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.2.0/lib/xml/libxml_so.so
Purchase order 5003020074 has been placed for a hard drive for Ubuntu. While it will certainly do in a pinch, Cygwin is rapidly ceasing to be a place of interest to me. I long for the real thing.