From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 10:37:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A06514EDF for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 10:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id TAA25868 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:37:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA41201 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:49:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: strings(1) vs. $LANG Date: 18 Dec 1999 18:49:21 +0100 Message-ID: <83ghf1$1873$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199912181707.MAA03525@rtfm.newton> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikhail Teterin wrote: > It seems, strings(1) will only print ASCII strings, regardless of the > locale. Is this intentional, or a bug worth send-pr-ing? Is it sensible to output strings according to the active locale when you don't know their encoding? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message