Re: set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 06 April 2009 22:03:28 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> > exactly do you suggest differentiating...
>
> I don't know. It's all truly over my head.
> All I know is "how are you going to 'market' this stuff in Asia?".

we dont "market" anything.  either you use it and like it, or you dont.  free 
software comes into its own rather than being pushed down your throat.  if 
something misbehaves, you suggest something better or post patches.

> I mean the US kids get to see all their -x feedback pretty, but Asians
> must see it garbled. I don't know. Some kind of set -o passthru mode, on
> by default?

a new `set -o` mode is probably sanest.  as for default, that's Chet's call of 
course, but it'd probably make more sense to have the behavior detect locale 
settings.  if you're not running in a capable unicode locale, then it shouldnt 
be on by default.  and even then, the output probably shouldnt passthru 
invalid multibyte sequences as that tends to screw up the terminal.  `set -x` 
shouldnt do that all by itself ...
-mike

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