9984 – strings' man page should mention if --encoding supports UTF-8 or not

Bug 9984 - strings' man page should mention if --encoding supports UTF-8 or not

Summary: strings' man page should mention if --encoding supports UTF-8 or not

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Description jidanni 2009-03-23 10:41:07 UTC

strings' man page, at `--encoding=ENCODING'
should mention utf-8: say if it is or is not implemented,
so as to not leave the user wondering.

Comment 1 Nick Clifton 2009-04-01 14:51:59 UTC

The strings manual page already explicitly states which values are accepted for
the --encoding option.