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| author |   schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2016-02-05 21:03:51 +0000 |
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| committer | schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2016-02-05 21:03:51 +0000 |
| commit | 0689cbaafb9efa8d0fb1ff3c2acf3268721df132 (patch) | |
| tree | 47599ca157059a251d27e84316e644ba8b97c0b9 | |
| parent | Fix iwn(4) CCMP replay detection so it does not drop out-of-order A-MPDU (diff) | |
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Explain why we intentionally violate POSIX here, to prevent people from
being sad that they can't use UTF-8 in write(1), and to prevent that
they waste their time trying to fix it.
While here, fix some broken escaping.
OK jmc@ martijn@
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/write/write.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/write/write.1 b/usr.bin/write/write.1 index 65b7b9ee0f9..fa7bc74c651 100644 --- a/usr.bin/write/write.1 +++ b/usr.bin/write/write.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: write.1,v 1.18 2016/02/05 19:00:39 martijn Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: write.1,v 1.19 2016/02/05 21:03:51 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -119,11 +119,12 @@ The .Nm utility is compliant with the .St -p1003.1-2008 -specification, -except that in this implementation -the sender's locale is ignored. +specification, except that in this implementation the sender's +locale is intentionally ignored in order to avoid sending characters +that the receiving terminal may be unable to display, or even bytes +that might break the receiving terminal's state. Non-ASCII characters are written as -.Sq \? . +.Sq \&? . .Sh HISTORY A .Nm |