[Bug binutils/27551] The default encoding of the strings utility does not conform to POSIX: should honor the current locale.

[vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27551

--- Comment #2 from Vincent Lefèvre <vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net> ---
Hi Nick,

(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #1)
>   You can achieve the desired decoding by setting the character width
>   on the command line, like this:
> 
>     % echo abcdéfghi | ./binutils/strings -e S
>     abcdéfghi

"-e S" does not work with UTF-8, where I get a lot of binary data.

I think that the correct solution is to use isprint(), which automatically
honors the current locale if

  setlocale (LC_ALL, "");

has been used.

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