At 3:17 PM -0500 10/24/05, Jeff Vian wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:14 +0100, Bryan Anderson wrote:
>> Type this in a (gnome) terminal:
>>
>> echo "this is ok \016 this is not but after \017 it is ok again"
>>
>> Same effect if you "cat" a file containing ^N and ^O to a terminal.
>> Someone sends me emails with embedded ^N and ^O. Pine barfs when
>> run in a GT.
>>
>> Is there a way to stop this happening other than being rude to them?
>>
>This echo statement displays exactly as typed for me with gnome-terminal
>2.10.0
>
>[jeff@eagle websites]$ echo "this is ok \016 this is not but after \017
>it is ok again"
>this is ok \016 this is not but after \017 it is ok again
...
I think he quoted wrong. Try:
$ echo $'this is ok \016 this is not but after \017 it is ok again'
Some graphics chars show up between the SO and SI. It must be a feature.
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