[18471] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.10: fmt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Oct 26 11:36:48 2000
To: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 26 Oct 2000 11:36:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Carr's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:42:38 -0400"
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<jfc@MIT.EDU> (John Carr) writes:
> The £ (Pound Symbol) character disappeared.
> On further investigation, fmt silently ignores
> characters with the high bit set. If I set
> LANG=en-US then fmt dumps core instead.
FWIW, /usr/bin/fmt handles £ on multics (an 8.3.29 Sun) when I have
LANG set to en_US (note punctuation) or LC_CTYPE set to iso_8859_1,
and the binary in the gnu locker always deals.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
