Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters
> out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
> sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
> doing "less <some binary file>" or, more important - if something
> bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters,
> "ls" will trash the console while "ls | less" will show you everything
> and let you delete it.
I think there is a misunderstanding here:
"non-ascii" is not the same as "non-printable".
At least in iso-8859-1, characters from 160 to 255 *are* printable, and
should *not* be "escaped" in any way, or else nobody will be able to see
\begin{TeX}
Espa\~na
\end{TeX}
properly (i.e. "España" in iso-8859-1).
These characters are also printable with the default font, but obviously
you will not see the letter (TeX \~n) or accented letters, but IBM-PC
graphics instead.
You may trash the console by printing characters from 128 to 159, but in
general these are *not* printable, so I don't think anything bad will
happen if we are 8-bit clean at least *for characters between 160 and 255*.
Thanks.
p.s. I don't remember ever having trashed the console by using less.
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