On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > We need to decide a way to define that site-wide, to ship "less" > > pre-configured to display 8 bits. > > That's not good idea. One nice feature of less is that you can safely > view binary files with it, without messing up your terminal with > escape sequences; if 8-bit is enabled by default, this advantage will > go away. It is not the case. If you set LESSCHARSET to latin1, you can still safely do 'less /bin/bash'. You will still see 0x00 as ^@, but you will see 0xe9 as 'á' (aacute). The GNU people brighter than that.
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