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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 16:13:30 +0000 |
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On 03/22/2013 04:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 09:45 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> @table @samp
>> @item a
>> named character, ignoring high-order bit
>> @item c
>> -ASCII character or backslash escape,
>> +printable single byte character or backslash escape,
>
> Hmm, we output octal sequences without a backslash; should the info page
> be any more verbose that it is one of: a single-byte printable
> character, a C backslash escape, or an octal sequence? Or does that
> just clutter things (seeing three octal digits, even without a
> backslash, still makes it easy to determine that it can be used as an
> escape sequence).
Good point.
I'll make that clarification in the same commit as it at least confirms the
behavior is intended. POSIX is explicit about the three possibilities.
thanks,
Pádraig.