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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:44:01 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what are these characters please?
Message-ID:  <a95031$2rd8$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <3CB571D6.2C10B9AA@mindspring.com> <20020411113858.E48BB3F30@bast.unixathome.org> <a9492h$2g43$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <3CB5F49B.C21B24E9@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:

> In this particular case, the advice about non-printable ASCII
> characters doesn't work,

Yes, it does.

> either, since it will only swallow the <ESC>, and not the rest
> of the sequence or the terminator.

Which is perfectly within the goal of turning the input stream into
a validly encoded sequence.  That we are left with a handful of
garbage characters instead of a single one is of no concern.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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