Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:32:05 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any reason for no ostrip? Message-ID: <10436.1128594725@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:57:17 %2B0400." <20051006085716.GB66584@comp.chem.msu.su>
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In message <20051006085716.GB66584@comp.chem.msu.su>, Yar Tikhiy writes: >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? Couldn't you get the same result with cs7 and space parity ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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