Package: utfout Version: 0.0.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
First: This is an excellent little tool, just what I need: $ utfout 'one\u0020two\nthree' one two three Small problem: If the first character of the string to be converted is a '-', the whole string is treated as an option string, causing an wrror message without any further output: $ utfout '-one\u0020two\nthree' utfout: invalid option -- 'n' utfout: invalid option -- '\' It seems to make no difference if the string is preceeded by true options: $ utfout -i '-one\u0020two\nthree' utfout: invalid option -- 'n' utfout: invalid option -- '\' $ utfout -t '-one\u0020two\nthree' utfout: invalid option -- 'n' utfout: invalid option -- '\' The usual convention of using '--' to end options processing has the unexpected result of suppressing all output: $ utfout -- '-one\u0020two\nthree' $ utfout -i -- '-one\u0020two\nthree' A possible workaround is preceding the string by a character that is removed after conversion: $ utfout ' -one\u0020two\nthree' -one two three $ utfout ' -one\u0020two\nthree' | sed -e 's/^ //' -one two three0 -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages utfout depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 utfout recommends no packages. utfout suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
