Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than symbol, as in -. Is there any plan to make the arrow also

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than symbol, as in -. Is there any plan to

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Erik Auerswald wrote: Hi, On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than symbol, as in -.

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which make the discussion difficult to follow. Something along the

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Philip Rowlands wrote: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which make the discussion difficult to

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Philip Rowlands wrote: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which make the discussion difficult to

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Svoboda
Pádraig Brady wrote 1276 bytes: Also some scripts may be depending on the output from `cp -v`, so I'm not on for changing it. The output is already changed (the neat quotes). And one can use LC_ALL=POSIX to get rid of both.

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: Philip Rowlands wrote: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Eric Blake wrote: This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html This list archive has done strange things with character encodings which make the

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com writes: # quick dir listing with latest files/dirs at the bottom, # prettify symlink arrows. # using eval to precompute the tput sequences. eval l() { ls -lrt --color=always \\...@\ | sed 's/ - / $(tput bold)▪▶$(tput sgr0) /' FWIW, I find this arrow

Re: the unicode arrow

2009-09-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Andreas Schwab wrote: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com writes: # quick dir listing with latest files/dirs at the bottom, # prettify symlink arrows. # using eval to precompute the tput sequences. eval l() { ls -lrt --color=always \\...@\ | sed 's/ - / $(tput bold)▪▶$(tput sgr0) /'

the unicode arrow

2009-09-06 Thread Michal Svoboda
When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than symbol, as in -. Is there any plan to make the arrow also neat, using the unicore arrow symbol?