Re: ALT-sp (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as asingleargumen)
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Michael Sinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW - How does your system represent a file with 0xA0 in it? An ls on FreeBSD 4.4-Stable seems to show it as: -rw-r--r-- 1 msinz msinz 0 Oct 3 12:00 foo?bar Interesting - not what I would have expected but I think non-printables are replaced by the ? when ls runs. Even more interesting is this: -rw-r--r-- 1 msinz msinz 0 Oct 3 12:00 foo?bar -rw-r--r-- 1 msinz msinz 1 Oct 3 12:05 foo?bar This is only interesting (in the sense in which you seem to use the word) to someone who has not read the ls(1) manual page, and does not know of the -q and -B options... This was within the context of alt-space replacing spaces in file names. As things stand now, it is not even easily usable as the main tool used to list the files in a directory does not show it correctly. (As far as the non-printables, I agree that LS is supposed to do, but is non-breaking space really a non-printable?) -- Michael Sinz Worldgate Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: ALT-sp (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as asingleargumen)
In message 89efc3b204df3107d1@[192.168.1.4], Michael Sinz cleopede: This was within the context of alt-space replacing spaces in file names. As things stand now, it is not even easily usable as the main tool used to list the files in a directory does not show it correctly. (As far as the non-printables, I agree that LS is supposed to do, but is non-breaking space really a non-printable?) touch altALT-spacespace regularspacespace env LANG=fr_FR.ISO_8859-1 ls alt space regular space env LANG= ls alt?space regular space I believe that most (not quite all) character sets in which 0xa0 is defined at all use it for unbreakable space. (But it is not defined in 7-bit ASCII, which is the FreeBSD default.) Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
