12 Mar
2021
12 Mar
'21
6:31 a.m.
John P. Linderman wrote in
<CAC0cEp93762jEt4BAed-tQ7-vi1YGVEket=B8Z-F-3finWUHbw(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 4:18 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> \
|wrote:
|> John P. Linderman wrote in
|> <CAC0cEp9GVsYbjYhsYk2Hjjj90FxYFAia2Luy_vg854NTrV3Hww(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|>|The tab/detab horse was still twitching, so I decided to beat it a little
|>|more.
|>|
|>|Doug's claim that tabs saving space was an urban legend didn't ring
true,
|>|but betting again Doug is a good way to get poor quick.
|
|> Not really. I mean, i do not insist of this, but i looked at the
|> numbers. And despite col(1) 2.36.2 giving the wrong line when
|> failing to dig a LATIN1 in UTF-8 (should be 7, gave 11), when
|> i sum up the total of 8: in an old project with tests,
|> documentation etc. here the output is 1044401. This is without
|> generated data.
|
|I'm not certain what you are referring to by "Not Really". But there is
a
I am sorry. It must have been bad english and a misunderstanding.
Especially surrounding the dead horse that was mentioned in the
original message of yours.
|general issue about the ability of historical commands (like "ed") to
|properly handle unicode. I would expect that many early commands do very
|poorly. -- jpl
Yes. Of course. It is one of these days were whatever i do
i stumble over errors in my own as well as in other peoples
software, and then this script of years was a nice try (i never
actually did that test), and then the find(1) i did spit out
masses of errors, and it took quite some trials to get it done.
I apologise. Just one of these days.
$ echo Müßig | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | LC_ALL=C col -x
col: failed on line 1: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
This should not happen. (Now also clarified by POSIX standard.)
#?1|kent:tmp$ cat <<_EOT | iconv -f utf8 -tlatin1 | LC_ALL=C col -x
one
two
three
four
five
älter
_EOT
col: failed on line 11: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
one
two
three
four
five
No fun for me today.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)