Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:29:21 -0700 (PDT) From: andrew@fortress.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/20204: more doesn't handle 8-bit characters properly Message-ID: <20000727022921.9F26D37BFF2@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 20204 >Category: bin >Synopsis: more doesn't handle 8-bit characters properly >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 26 19:30:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andrew Webster >Release: 4.0 >Organization: PubNIX >Environment: FreeBSD guardian.fortress.org 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #3: Sat Jun 17 07:25:57 EDT 2000 andrew@guardian.fortress.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GUARDIAN-4.0 i386 >Description: when using more to paginate a file containing extended characters, such as accented characters in the ISO-8859-1 set, it displays à (a grave) as ^`, and a ç (c cedilla) as ^g, etc. A command line option to display extended characters would be useful >How-To-Repeat: more any file with french, spanish, german characters. >Fix: isprint routine in GCC is the source of the problem. Would need to use a different macro, possibly not ctype, or a locale knowlegable one at least. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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