According to Eric Blake on 3/28/2006 6:58 AM: > Interesting question; I don't recall ever seeing this topic asked before > here or upstream, so I don't know where to search either. I'll do some > upstream asking, to see what might be improved.
As for whether upstream will agree to make the default quoting style look at the environment variable QUOTING_STYLE instead of blindly going with 'locale', the jury is still out. But I am currently playing with a hack in my copy of the implementation of the 'locale' quoting style, where if the high bit is set (c >= 0x80), then I treat the character as a literal printing char (under the assumption that the current code page and font can distinctly render the 8-bit character) rather than the current scenario of turning the character into an octal escape. It worked for my default Latin character set, at least. I plan on releasing another test version of coreutils soon with this hack in place, for comments; and if it works out, the hack will also be applied to the next findutils and tar releases (since all three packages use the quote() module of gnulib). This hack should only be needed on newlib platforms, where isprint() does not know about locales other than "C". -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
