On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:20:25 -0600, Lionel B Dyck wrote:
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>All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.
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"All"?  some utilities are by design wisely exempt from autoconversion.
These include od, cksum, iconv, and others.

would it rely on autoconversion?  Would it be limited to ISO8859-1
and IBM-1047?

What about UTF-8, which abounds on desktops and web pages?

Would it be affected by locale settings?  On my desktop I see, e.g.:
504 $ echo aπz | sed -E 's/(.)(.)(.)/1 \1  2 \2  3 \3  /'
1 a  2 π  3 z  
505 $ 
505 $ echo aπz | LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1  sed -E 's/(.)(.)(.)/1 \1  2 \2  3 \3 
 /'
1 a  2 ?  3 ?  z
506 $ 

-- 
gil

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