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Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports --dry-run prints non-ASCII characters as ga
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Ole Tange |
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Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports --dry-run prints non-ASCII characters as garbage |
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Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:01:00 +0200 |
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:00 AM, Zhiming Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
> As you can see, the non-ASCII UTF-8 character is escaped in the output, and in
> an unintelligible form: a backslash is inserted before each byte, with the
> byte
> intact (instead of being replaced with its hex or octal representation). I
> think it is arguable that UTF-8 should be printed as is; if that's
> undesirable,
> at least actual octal or hex escape sequences convery more information than
> raw
> bytes which are usually displayed as boxes or question marks or a combination
> thereof.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?50693
/Ole