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Re: Problem with displaying ASCII table in mintty


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.

You can write your own imitation ascii as a Perl one-liner:

perl -e 'for ($i=0;$i<256;$i+=4) { for ($i..$i+3) {  printf "%03d
0x%02x  %c\t", ($_)x3 } print "\n"; }'

which can be adjusted for different locale settings:

perl -Mencoding=utf8 -e '...'


adding the control-sequence support (^x) is left as an exercise for
the reader. :)

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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