Re: set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

2009-04-08 Thread jidanni
Instead of having bash make judgements about what people want from their personal mix of: $ locale|sed 's/.*=//;s///g;/^$/d'|sort|uniq -c 2 C 11 zh_TW.UTF-8 instead just have a passthru option they could enable, that says I hereby agree that I want to be sent raw -x output back, and if

Re: set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

2009-04-08 Thread jidanni
locale variables have pretty clear definitions. obviously LC_COLLATE wouldnt be relevant here, but LC_MESSAGES certainly would. Assumptions, assumptions, those happen to be the two C's for me. So let me override without having to tamper with them please.

Re: set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

2009-04-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 03:04:15 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: locale variables have pretty clear definitions. obviously LC_COLLATE wouldnt be relevant here, but LC_MESSAGES certainly would. Assumptions, assumptions, those happen to be the two C's for me. So let me override without having

Re: set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

2009-04-08 Thread jidanni
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes: i never said you couldnt override them. i said the *default behavior* would OK, it's a deal. Now all that's left is for that Chet guy to implement it :-)

set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

2009-04-06 Thread jidanni
Gentlemen, -x's reporting should just pass the Chinese right back. $ set -x; export LC_ALL=$LANG; echo 中文 + export LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 + LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 + echo $'\344\270\255\346\226\207' 中文 Or OK, to be fair, even the ASCII should come back as octal escapes.

Re: set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 April 2009 21:24:35 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Gentlemen, -x's reporting should just pass the Chinese right back. $ set -x; export LC_ALL=$LANG; echo 中文 + export LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 + LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 + echo $'\344\270\255\346\226\207' 中文 i dont think that's UTF-8. unicode

Re: set -x prejudiced; won't smell UTF-8 coffee

2009-04-06 Thread jidanni
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes: exactly do you suggest differentiating... I don't know. It's all truly over my head. All I know is how are you going to 'market' this stuff in Asia?. I mean the US kids get to see all their -x feedback pretty, but Asians must see it garbled. I don't know.