jettero
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In one of my projects, I'm using the new line character to show line breaks — people are calling it a “funny character.” What do you see?
Altreus
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That's showing up as a box here. The \n character should definitely not show up in HTML 
benquick
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it shows up as a small NL. About 1/4 the normal size, bottom right
Altreus
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According to xxd the character you're using is 0xe2, which is not ASCII. ASCII stops at 7F.
Altreus
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in UTF-8 e2 is â, but I'm not seeing that. So that means it's actually being interpreted as 0xE290, since there's no byte after it ...
Altreus
says
... which is ee 8a 90, which isn't a character
Altreus
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It might be a control char of some sort ...
Altreus
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According to Gnu charmap, E290 is in the 'private use' area of unicode.
Altreus
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So there we are You've used that, not new line at all
You've used that, not new line at all
jettero
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who said anything about ascii? it's a unicode character, ␤
Altreus
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the new line character is ASCII... if it's not ASCII it's not "the new line character" :s
jettero
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I maybe should have said, "the character designated to represent the
newline character offically called SYMBOL FOR NEWLINE"
jettero
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I assumed people could figure it out based on the fact that the actual character was in the tweet and they use it all the time on #perl6
Altreus
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Ah, that is equally a boring box both here and on that page. In the terminal it is a weird robot sperm though.
jettero
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You're not viewing it with the right terminal settings, that's abundantly clear. This document (plurk) is utf-8, ...
jettero
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... that character is more than one byte. When I wget plurk/jettero, it automatically converts it to \u2424, so xxd shows that.
Altreus
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Well, in browser it's a box, presumably because I don't have the full font for some reason.
Altreus
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gawd knows what happens between the browser and the terminal then 
jettero
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what platform are you on that doesn't understand utf8?
jettero
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even msie sees the NL symbol.
Altreus
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It's linux/Chrome and everything should be utf-8
jettero
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Well, clearly it isn't … ☠ ☺ ‽
Altreus
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skull, smile, interrobang
jettero
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huh. Probably just your font then.