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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 02:29:17 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Instead of having bash make judgements about what people want from their
> personal mix of:
> $ locale|sed 's/.*=//;s/"//g;/^$/d'|sort|uniq -c
>       2 C
>      11 zh_TW.UTF-8

locale variables have pretty clear definitions.  obviously LC_COLLATE wouldnt 
be relevant here, but LC_MESSAGES certainly would.

> instead just have a passthru option they could enable, that says "I
> hereby agree that I want to be sent raw -x output back, and if it looks
> weird, it's my own fault, 'garbage in, garbage out'."

your definition of 'garbage' is pretty loose.  you also ignore know non-
printable characters like the first ~30 characters in the ascii table.  those 
should never be printed directly.

> In fact I forgot at the moment why they would see garbage.

not every multibyte sequence is valid and thus will not map to a valid 
character.
-mike

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