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

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:13:30 +0000

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.