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Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:35:40 +0100 |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> in the mean time, advise people to use "-T0"
>> >> (or set TABSIZE=0 in their environment) if they care about alignment
>> >> when using a buggy version of that particular terminal emulator.
>>
>> Do you really think it would be better to make everyone pay (even a tiny bit)
>> when there is such an easy work-around?
>
> Given that
> - Apple Terminal is the default/normal terminal emulator on MacOS X,
> - networking/pipe speed are not critical nowadays (in the times of
> internet radio and streaming video),
> - the bug was tricky enough to analyze, that an average user couldn't do
> it by himself,
> I would say yes in this case.
We disagree.
IMHO, it would be unwise to make such a global sacrifice for
a single, buggy, closed-source terminator emulator.
However, if someone tells me which version of Apple Terminal
is affected, I'll mention the work-around in the coreutils README file.
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, (continued)
Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/17
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- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/17
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/01/17
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/19
Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Paul Eggert, 2007/01/18
Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/18
Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/01/18
Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, sci-fi, 2007/01/18