Special character not displaying as expected

[B3N64]

The characters in the following image are not displayed as expected when this command is executed with the character pasted in to it: term.write("�").

The character "�" = "\131"

My code:

term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(1, 1)
term.write((string.byte("�"))) -- prints 194 instead of 131
term.setCursorPos(1, 2)
term.write("|�|")                     -- prints "\194" and "\131" instead of just "\131"
term.setCursorPos(1, 3)
term.write("|\131|")
term.setCursorPos(1, 4)

Output:

[SquidDev]

Ahh. I suspect what's going on here is that your file is saved as UTF-8, but CC/Lua only works on plain bytes. This means that the Unicode codepoint is not saved as a literal \131, but instead encoded as \194\131.

You could possibly configure your editor to save as latin1, but it's probably just easier to use escape codes (so \131) rather than pasting in the characters.