Bug#544317: closed by Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> (Re: wall: outputs "ÿ" (0xFF) as "\377")

2016-11-07 Thread Phil Susi
On 11/6/2016 2:39 PM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > "These functions check whether c, which must have the value of an > unsigned char or EOF, ...". > > When the code is compiled with "-funsigned-char" the output is correct. > > This is a fundamental flaw in the cc-standard. The program

Bug#544317: closed by Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> (Re: wall: outputs "ÿ" (0xFF) as "\377")

2016-11-06 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 09:09:04AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: [...] > > As just discussed in http://bugs.debian.org/826596 it seems the output > is printed as escaped ascii codes when the locale (on the receiving side) > does not consider a character printable. > Not the locale,