On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:37:27PM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote: > in theory, yes > but often it is used to filter out characters that should not > go straight to the terminal, where they can be a source of > a DOS attack (colour codes, switching terminal into > graphics mode, backspaces - I happened to be a victim of such > a joke a long time ago).
ASCII escape values are still recognized as nonprintable, so none of these are a problem. (UTF-8 terminals shouldn't have a "graphics mode", of course.) -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
