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bug report for core-utils command : OD

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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 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13947: bug report for core-utils command :  OD
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.

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