On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 07:04:13PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:00:46 +0100 > "James" <james.hunt@canonical.com> wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: James Hunt <james.hunt@ubuntu.com> > > > > * Package name : out > > Terrible choice of name - utf8-out ? > > > Command-line tool that can produce UTF-8 (Unicode) strings in various ways and > > direct them to standard output, standard error or direct to the terminal > > without the need for shell support. Strings can be repeated, delayed, > > randomly-generated, written to arbitrary file descriptors, interspersed with > > other characters and generated using ranges. Printf(1)-style escape > > sequences are supported along with extended escape sequences. > > > > This utility sits somewhere between echo(1) and printf(1) in > > functionality with a dash of seq(1) thrown in. > > If that's true, why hasn't this been included into shells already? > > Struggling to see a use-case for it, TBH, which doesn't help with an > alternative name and may indicate that the long description doesn't > really describe why it would be useful. Is this just for test suites? > What needs this utility? I could see using this to test (if I'm reading this right) UTF handling of apps I hack on. I'm sure it can output RTL or something, it'd be nifty to see what breaks with all sorts of UTF jamed down it's stdin. That being said, I don't know anything about this. > > -- > > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ > -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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