Re: the unicode arrow

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM:
> > When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in
> > „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than
> > symbol, as in ->. Is there any plan to make the arrow also neat, using
> > the unicore arrow symbol?
> 
> This was discussed last month.  The verdict is no.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html

Actually that discussion was about ls -l, which has a POSIX specified
output format. The cp -v case is different in that it is not POSIX
specified and already uses special characters (those "neat quotes").
I'd say that cp -v could very well use an arrow symbol (but I don't
intend to write a patch, since this is not important to me ;-).

Erik
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