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bug report for core-utils command : OD

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Message #16 received at 13947-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Mark.Jaeger <at> oracle.com, Marc Grondin <marc.grondin <at> oracle.com>,
	13947-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13947: bug report for core-utils command :  OD
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:45:49 +0000

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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 (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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