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diff --git a/docs/unicode.txt b/docs/unicode.txt index 019d12f..32df24d 100644 --- a/docs/unicode.txt +++ b/docs/unicode.txt @@ -26,30 +26,45 @@ But we also need to handle the following problematic moments: * Bidirectional handling. If user wants to echo a phrase in Hebrew, he types: echo "srettel werbeH" - Editors + Editors (vi, ed) This case is a bit similar to "shell input", but unlike shell, editors may encounder many more unexpected unicode sequences -(try to load a random binry file...), and they need to preserve +(try to load a random binary file...), and they need to preserve them, unlike shell which can afford to drop bogus input. - more, less -. +Need to correctly display any input file. Ideally, with +ASCII/unicode/filtered_unicode option or keyboard switch. +Note: need to handle tabs and backspaces specially +(bksp is for manpage compat). + + cut, fold, watch + +May need ability to cut unicode string to specified number of wchars +and/or to specified screen width. Need to handle tabs specially. + + sed, awk, grep + +Handle unicode-aware regexp match ls (multi-column display) -. +ls will fail to line up columnar output if it will not account +for character widths (and maybe filter out some of them, see +above). OTOH, non-columnar views (ls -1, ls -l, ls | car) +should NOT filter out bad unicode (but need to filter out +control chars (coreutils does that). Note that unlike more/less, +tabs and backspaces need not special handling. top, ps -. +Need to perform filtering similar to ls. Filename display (in error messages and elsewhere) -. - +Need to perform filtering similar to ls. TODO: write an email to Asmus Freytag (asmus@unicode.org), |