Droid issues - Legacy Bash IFS var clobbering VLIW offset?

Stewart Russell scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 23 19:48:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I'm a real die hard. I expect to be able to make my linux to send
> plain text when I want it to.

What do you mean by “plain text”? Plain ASCII? That's harder to do
these days — input systems will [rightly, I believe] correct legacy
ASCII characters into more typographically correct Unicode glyphs.
What was done in the past as a typewriter approximation should not
continue on for eternity. After all, it used to be correct to type ‘l’
for ‘1’  …

 Stewart
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