Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: > Thanks for the review! > > Could you submit an alternative to this patch? In particular... > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 15:20:54 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> > hunk ./src/configuring_darcs.tex 274 >> > you can set the environment variable DARCS\_DONT\_ESCAPE\_ISPRINT to 1 >> > and darcs will display all the printables in the current system locale >> > instead of just the ASCII ones. >> > -NOTE: This curently does not work on some architectures if darcs is >> > -compiled with GHC~6.4. Some non-ASCII control characters might be printed >> > -and can possibly spoof the terminal. >> >> I think this is wrong; "Some non-ASCII control characters might be >> printed -and can possibly spoof the terminal" still applies to current >> versions.
Hmm, on sober reflection I think I was confusing _ISPRINT with _ANYTHING. The caveat was originally added by the following changeset; Tommy, are you still around and do you have an opinion on what, if anything, should go here? Sun Nov 13 02:36:28 EST 2005 Tommy Pettersson <[email protected]> * add note in docs about bug with DARCS_DONT_ESCAPE_ISPRINT with GHC 6.4 hunk ./configuring_darcs.tex 204 +NOTE: This doesn't work if darcs is compiled with GHC~6.4 or later. +Some non-ASCII control characters might be printed and possibly spoof the terminal. +It is a known bug in darcs and will be fixed in a future release. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
