Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:07:14 +0800 (CST) From: Scott Hazen Mueller <scott@zorch.sf-bay.org> To: ache@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/12317: fmt(1) not 8-bit-clean Message-ID: <199906220107.JAA02842@zorba.sf-bay.org>
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>Synopsis: fmt(1) not 8-bit-clean >State-Changed-From-To: open->closed >State-Changed-By: ache >State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 21 05:12:08 PDT 1999 >State-Changed-Why: >Wrong direction. You must set up correct locale in environment. I object to this characterization. The fmt(1) man page does not mention locale and does not state that the filter deletes "illegal" input characters. Other UNIX programs that process "text" (e.g. pr(1)) do not silently delete input characters. This behavior is a bug. It must either be fixed or documented. I supplied a fix. If you don't like it, fix the manual to document the behavior, but don't just close the problem report and claim it was an operator error. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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