From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 08:57:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A277916A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:57:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (comp.chem.msu.su [158.250.32.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C3143D58 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 08:57:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j968vHWa068982 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:57:17 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: (from yar@localhost) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j968vH3C068977 for arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:57:17 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yar) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:57:17 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy To: arch@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051006085716.GB66584@comp.chem.msu.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Subject: Any reason for no ostrip? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:57:25 -0000 All, I've been missing the ostrip terminal option for quite a while. Frankly, it is of use mostly to Cyrillic users because our main Unix encoding, KOI8, has a funny property: It can be readable if mapped to US-ASCII by stripping the high bit, so if you happen to land at a terminal w/o Cyrillic support, you still can read your mail if you manage to strip the 8th bit off. Unfortunately, far from all terminals, hardware as well as software, have an option to strip the 8th bit. Since we have istrip already, adding ostrip would be just complementary. Any objections? -- Yar