On 2012-04-16, at 9:03 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Copy `cat -A'?
seq 0 255 | sed 's/$/P/' | dc | cat -A
Or some other similar escaping; \x1b. It does mean one wouldn't be
able to discern a subject with cat -A-looking output from binary.
What about non-utf8 multi-byte encodings. Can 2022 style encodings have
embedded printable ASCII characters? (Thankfully I've been away from that
stuff long enough to have forgotten.)
Also, I would convert the unprintable characters to '.' for display. The \xyz
escapes are visually cluttering and obscure the viable text.
--lyndon
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