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| author | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-17 04:15:27 +0000 |
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| committer | tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-17 04:15:27 +0000 |
| commit | e867ac8953c362a486c040fc45376ad7cc294fc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 63022b5cdd8cd5a7738ae2979255895d014a698b /usr.bin/write | |
| parent | a4d61babee2e763734bcaf74da19bfe5a4b2403a (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-e867ac8953c362a486c040fc45376ad7cc294fc7.zip FreeBSD-src-e867ac8953c362a486c040fc45376ad7cc294fc7.tar.gz | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/write')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/write/write.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/write/write.1 b/usr.bin/write/write.1 index 1d6f8e2..f133cc6 100644 --- a/usr.bin/write/write.1 +++ b/usr.bin/write/write.1 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 3, 2004 +.Dd July 17, 2004 .Dt WRITE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ A command appeared in .At v1 . .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. |
