> In RH bugzilla we have open bug impeaching right behavior of -x option. > Reporter is using japanese environment and is trying: > > bash -x -c "echo \"ããããã\"" > > echoing any japanese sentence. > > and bash write out: > + echo $'\343\201\202\343\201\204\343\201\206\343\201\210\343\201\212' > sentence in octal digits. > > He is arguing that -x turn on debugmode and wants to see readable japanese > sentence. > > My opinion is that -x isn't debugmode and this is right behavior. I think > there must be any reason why the echo is called with octal digits, but I > really don't know why?
The purpose of -x is to display an execution trace. The bash implementation quotes the output for convenient reuse as input. In this case, it goes for locale-independence. I'm not inclined to change the current behavior. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/
