> Previously Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > What!! An hexdump? Is someone insane? The SUSv2 standard > (Unix98) allows > > using the characters themselves... why would we want > something like this? > > Unicode perhaps? Definitely Unicode, but he's right that there must be some subset of Unicode (either ASCII or ISO 8859-1:1987) that should be usable as is... YA