On 2011-02-16 01:34:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:01:07AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2011-02-14 16:43:11 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > When LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8, programs which attempt to print unicode > > > characters to stdout should use UTF-8. That's what LC_TYPE means. > > > > So, "cat", "grep", etc. are all broken. :) > > How come? > > "cat" will, for any valid UTF-8 character on input, print a valid UTF-8 > character on output. For any valid ISO-8859-1 character on input, it will > print a valid ISO-8859-1 character on output.
I was just commenting what Ian said. If there is a valid reason for which "cat" may not produce UTF-8 in UTF-8 locales, this is also true for "perl" or any other software. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110216004529.gn15...@prunille.vinc17.org
