Erik Auerswald wrote: > 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").
What cp -v displays for quotes can be seen using `ls -l --quoting-style=locale` The German local on my system has the quotes the OP referred to: LANG=de_DE.utf8 ls -l --quoting-style=locale > 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 ;-). It's a trivial patch, though it's of marginal benefit. Also some scripts may be depending on the output from `cp -v`, so I'm not on for changing it. cheers, Pádraig.