On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Antti Harri wrote:
I recently noticed that `finger` prints
scandinavian characters weird, here's the output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ finger
Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office
Phone
dummy \366\326\304\344\305 p2 - Mon 00:39
But when specify the user the characters print normally:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ finger dummy
Login: dummy Name: vVDdEe
That should've been aAoOaA with umlauts and the last one
with circle (Swedish 'a').
After looking at the source the first case goes through
strvis() function and the second doesn't. What's the logic
behind this? Anyone care to answer? Answering to my own post is
quite silly..
What ways do I have to get finger to work with
these "special" chars that it is escaping?
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Antti Harri
