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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:05:58 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, imp@village.org
Subject:   Re: setlocale question
Message-ID:  <199609291605.TAA00468@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199609291255.OAA06956@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at "Sep 29, 96 02:55:11 pm"

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> As [?KOI8-R?] wrote:
> 
> > No, cat not require setlocale() (old variant, at least).
> > It uses isascii() for -v which is locale-independend.
> 
> It should use isprint().  Read the description of -v in the man page:
> 
>      -v      Displays non-printing characters so they are visible.  Control
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Since this will move it away from being ASCII-centric, it should
> perhaps also use \xxx notation for non-printable characters instead of
> this M-x crap.  Alas, this would move us away from the other BSDs
> again.

Hmm. We already use locale for *vis() functions, propably it is time
to implement it in cat too. I'll take care of it, if nobody disagree.

IMHO, it will be better to preserve M-x notation to be compatible
with *vis/*unvis functions and other BSDs.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/



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