On 03/04/2025 07:10, Avid Seeker wrote:
```
$ echo -n this is a 🐕 | od -cx
0000000 t h i s i s a 360 237 220 225
6874 7369 6920 2073 2061 9ff0 9590
0000016
```
Can od print UTF-8 characters verbatim instead of encoding them in octal?
I guess as its name suggests, that's not possible. But if it can do it
for ASCII characters what prevents it from also applying it to UTF-8
characters?
If it's not possible, any suggestions or alternative tools would be
apprecited.
Avid
Well there is a bit of a layout issue with multi-byte chars.
With which byte do you align the literal character with?
Also if aligning with spaces there is ambiguity as to whether
there was a space there in the input or not.
$ echo -n this is á 🐕 | od -tc -tx1
0000000 t h i s i s 303 241 360 237 220 225
74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 c3 a1 20 f0 9f 90 95
$ echo -n this is á 🐕 | od -tx1z
0000000 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 c3 a1 20 f0 9f 90 95 >this is .. ....<
Now in the first form above at least I guess there isn't much ambiguity with
spaces,
and we could continue to align multi-byte chars to the last nibble.
thanks,
Pádraig
