Hi, On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: > > When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in > > „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than > > symbol, as in ->. Is there any plan to make the arrow also neat, using > > the unicore arrow symbol? > > This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html
Actually that discussion was about ls -l, which has a POSIX specified output format. The cp -v case is different in that it is not POSIX specified and already uses special characters (those "neat quotes"). I'd say that cp -v could very well use an arrow symbol (but I don't intend to write a patch, since this is not important to me ;-). Erik -- But hey, don't listen to me - I like C++, and approve of Java. -- Andrew Morton