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bug#13947: bug report for core-utils command : OD
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#13947: bug report for core-utils command : OD |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:45:49 +0000 |
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On 03/13/2013 09:53 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 09:34 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> In reality, that should state something like:
>
>> Output as characters in the current locale, using octal sequences
>> or backslash escapes for all non-graphic bytes.
>
> Note we output spaces, so I'd s/non-graphic/non-printable/.
>
> Also multi byte is always going to be problematic displaying
> in a grid like this, so we'll probably continue to do as
> we do now for the utf8 example above and output octal and dots.
> So therefore s/characters/single byte characters/.
Hopefully the attached clarifies things.
thanks,
Pádraig.
od-printable.patch
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