From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 29 06:22:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA28957 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA28890 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 06:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA00837; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:21:29 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA28542; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 15:21:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id OAA06956; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:55:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199609291255.OAA06956@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: setlocale question To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:55:11 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: imp@village.org, ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199609291029.NAA00920@nagual.ru> from "[?KOI8-R?]" at "Sep 29, 96 01:29:35 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As [?KOI8-R?] wrote: > No, cat not require setlocale() (old variant, at least). > It uses isascii() for -v which is locale-independend. It should use isprint(). Read the description of -v in the man page: -v Displays non-printing characters so they are visible. Control ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Since this will move it away from being ASCII-centric, it should perhaps also use \xxx notation for non-printable characters instead of this M-x crap. Alas, this would move us away from the other BSDs again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)