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Date:      Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:33:27 +0200
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Marko_Cupa=C4=87?= <marko.cupac@mimar.rs>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: strange cat behaviour
Message-ID:  <F19C8871-D36D-413B-8CFC-DC3552603448@cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <20170120092036.0ad890e7@efreet.kappastar.com>
References:  <20170120092036.0ad890e7@efreet.kappastar.com>

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> On 20 Jan 2017, at 10:20, Marko Cupać <marko.cupac@mimar.rs> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed strange behaviour when listing log file which contains
> non-ascii characters with cat. It appears to hang at certain non-ascii
> character. Issuing ctrl+c un-hangs it and displays the rest of the log.
> 
> Here's where it hangs (I redacted non-relevant private information):
> 
> [94098] [Tue Jan 17 07:25:27 2017] [info]:
> RT::User::CanonicalizeUserInfoFromExternalAuth returning EmailAddress:
> aleksandra.surname@example.org, Name: aleksandra.surname,
> Organization: Example, RealName: Aleksandra Ä
> 
> less doesn't seem to have this problem, here's how above line looks
> there:
> 
> [94098] [Tue Jan 17 07:25:27 2017] [info]:
> RT::User::CanonicalizeUserInfoFromExternalAuth returning EmailAddress:
> aleksandra.surname@example.org, Name: aleksandra. surname,
> Organization: Example, RealName: Aleksandra
> Ä<U+0090>orÄ<U+0091>eviÄ<U+0087>, WorkPhone: +381 66 666 666
> (/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/RT/User.p m:811)
> 
> Any advice appreciated.

some control characters will confuse the terminal emulator, so try cat -v.

danny

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> 
> Marko Cupać
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