Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty

[Charles Wilson]

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Mark Harig wrote:
>> Do you have any recommendations about what the utility program /usr/bin/ascii
>> (in the package 'cygutils') should do?
> 
> Since the Cygwin version of ascii doesn't appear to have a man page,
> I'm not sure what it "should" do.  What it appears to do is simply
> printout out all possible 8-bit characters so you can see what they
> are.  Which will fail in any multibyte locale.

Yep. ascii.exe is dirt simple.  One possibility is that it could detect
the locale, and for multibyte ones display only 0x00..0x7f (or
x20..0x7f).  For single byte locales, go ahead with the current
dirt-simple behavior.

PTC.

--
Chuck


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