From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 11 15:30:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C2A37B419 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 16vn5V-0000B2-01; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:30:41 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3BLi2cU093944 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:44:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3BLi19D093943 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:44:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: what are these characters please? Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <3CB571D6.2C10B9AA@mindspring.com> <20020411113858.E48BB3F30@bast.unixathome.org> <3CB5F49B.C21B24E9@mindspring.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > In this particular case, the advice about non-printable ASCII > characters doesn't work, Yes, it does. > either, since it will only swallow the , and not the rest > of the sequence or the terminator. Which is perfectly within the goal of turning the input stream into a validly encoded sequence. That we are left with a handful of garbage characters instead of a single one is of no concern. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message