Re: [Bug-ed] [patch] ed treats none UTF-8

[Takao Fujiwara]

(08/08/09 23:24), Antonio Diaz Diaz-san wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Checking your patch I have discovered that ed does not even have real
> support for edition of binary files; the control characters aren't
> correctly (or at all) shown on screen.

What do you mean the control characters aren't correctly shown?
Some binary files include multi-byte chars and people would like to show the 
multi-byte chars in the binary files.

Could you provide the test case of your problem?
I can enhance the patch.

Thanks,
fujiwara

> I do not think making ed a multibyte capable editor is a good idea. Much
> less if the changes are in the form of ad-hoc fixes for specific
> characters from specific charsets. Even improving the support for
> edition of binary files may break current use of ed.
>
> If you need to edit zh_CN.GB18030 texts I recommend you to use Emacs or
> some other utf-8 capable editor.
>
>
> Regards,
> Antonio.
>
>
>
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