bug#13947: bug report for core-utils command : OD

[Pádraig Brady]

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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