Re: Corrupted multibyte characters in command substitutions fixes may be worse than problem.

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/6/22 5:11 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> i just have a small question here
> the dropping of null bytes is no friend of me and i understand you're
> there to skip it instead of process, which results in null bytes gone
> which is not much of an use
>
> can't these \0 bytes be encoded at least when a utf8 locale is used as
> \u0 instead of dropping ? <the two utf 8 bytes> and a null, ... just
> prefix the utf 8 encoding chars to the null
> and they'd be safely maybe still here

OK, say they're still there. What use are they? What are you going to do
with them?

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