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From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
Subject: Re: bin/28007: added "force printing of non-print chars" flag to /bin/ls
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The following reply was made to PR bin/28007; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/28007: added "force printing of non-print chars" flag to /bin/ls
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:11:43 -0700

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 On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:06:41AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
 >=20
 > Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't isprint() conform to locale settigs?
 > I don't know if this works with multibyte characters, but for 8-bit local=
 es
 > ls(1) certainly does the right thing, due to a setlocale(LC_ALL, "") call
 > at the very start.
 >=20
 
 Actually I discovered this only a few hours ago (I was under the impression
 that isprint() was a simple macro that just checked if it was > 32 and < 127
 or somesuch).  So I was mistaken and everything is alright on that that fro=
 nt
 for /bin/ls.
 
 > > 	I've added a -w flag to /bin/ls that is used to force raw output
 > > 	of nonprintable characters when the output is a tty.
 >=20
 > Other than the above argumet, yes, such a flag could be useful.
 >=20
 
 agreed, I think it could still be useful.
 
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 Jordan DeLong
 fracture@allusion.net
 
 
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