Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:57:17 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Any reason for no ostrip? Message-ID: <20051006085716.GB66584@comp.chem.msu.su>
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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
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