Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:55:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: imp@village.org, ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Subject: Re: setlocale question Message-ID: <199609291255.OAA06956@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199609291029.NAA00920@nagual.ru> from "[?KOI8-R?]" at "Sep 29, 96 01:29:35 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.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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