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Re: Consistent kbd config TODO list (was Re: Backspace & Delete)



On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote:

> Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > We need to decide a way to define that site-wide, to ship "less"
> > pre-configured to display 8 bits. 
> 
> That's not good idea. One nice feature of less is that you can safely
> view binary files with it, without messing up your terminal with
> escape sequences; if 8-bit is enabled by default, this advantage will
> go away.
It is not the case. If you set LESSCHARSET to latin1, you can still safely
do 'less /bin/bash'. You will still see 0x00 as ^@, but you will see 0xe9
as 'á' (aacute). The GNU people brighter than that.

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