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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-17 04:15:27 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-17 04:15:27 +0000
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Mention in the BUGS section that write and wall bogusly use the sender's
LC_CTYPE setting instead of the receiver's when determining which characters are printable.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/wall/wall.1 b/usr.bin/wall/wall.1
index 1992695..3615125 100644
--- a/usr.bin/wall/wall.1
+++ b/usr.bin/wall/wall.1
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ A
.Nm
command appeared in PWB UNIX.
.Sh BUGS
+The sender's
+.Ev LC_CTYPE
+setting is used to determine which characters are safe to write to a
+terminal, not the receiver's (which
+.Nm
+has no way of knowing).
+.Pp
The
.Nm
utility does not recognize multibyte characters.
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