On 31 Mar 2025 at 12:03, Alan Welsh wrote:
Date sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:03:22 -0700
From: Alan Welsh <[email protected]>
To: "busybox" <[email protected]>
Subject: busybox less fails to correctly render a .txt file
> The programs cat, less, and micro (text editor) all work to render a certain
> .txt file I have. But
> busybox less doesn't. It mangles the text. I've tried removing all
> non-printable characters from the
> text, but the problem remains.
>
> I'm using wayland and sway. And I have tried reading the file while using the
> terminals alacritty and
> foot.
>
> The first three paragraphs of the text is attached.
>
Two quick things. File has DOS CR/LF new lines. Has a number of
UTF characters in it, so not sure what you used to filter them out?
1 c3a2 [â] LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX (U+00E2)
1 c3a9 [é] LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE (U+00E9)
7 e28094 [—] EM DASH (U+2014)
14 e28099 [’] RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (U+2019)
5 e2809c [“] LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (U+201C)
5 e2809d [”] RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (U+201D)
Didn't see any difference.
# less abandon_all_hope.txt >less1
# busybox less abandon_all_hope.txt >less2
# cmp less1 less2
came up with no difference.
3118 Apr 1 09:43 less1
3118 Apr 1 09:44 less2
BusyBox v1.38.0.git (2025-03-29 12:33:07 ChST) multi-call binary.
> Thank you
>
>
>
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