On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote:
Diego Petten? complained that "ls -l" doesn't use the UTF-8 arrow
character to show where symlinks point to. This tiny patch fixes that.
With this applied the character is used when the CODESET is UTF-8
otherwise we fall back to the traditional "->" arrow.
Ah, "ls -l" is so much prettier now with this oh-so-important patch!
For verification:
http://pastie.org/573270
This will of course break scripts that try to parse the output of "ls
-l" and look for "->". But quite frankly those scripts are broken
anyway and should be using "LC_MESSAGES=C" or suchlike. One could
argue this breakage might even be desirable.
Why are scripts which look for "->" broken? It's explicitly stated in
the standard:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/ls.html
Cheers,
Phil
