Re: the unicode arrow (original) (raw)

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From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: the unicode arrow
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:08:31 +0100
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Erik Auerswald wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:23:12AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Michal Svoboda on 9/6/2009 5:33 AM: >> When doing cp -va I can see neat quotes (depending on locale), as in >> „blah“, but the arrow is still composed of a dash and a greater-than >> symbol, as in ->. Is there any plan to make the arrow also neat, using >> the unicore arrow symbol? > This was discussed last month. The verdict is no. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-08/msg00048.html

Actually that discussion was about ls -l, which has a POSIX specified output format. The cp -v case is different in that it is not POSIX specified and already uses special characters (those "neat quotes").

What cp -v displays for quotes can be seen using ls -l --quoting-style=locale The German local on my system has the quotes the OP referred to:

LANG=de_DE.utf8 ls -l --quoting-style=locale

I'd say that cp -v could very well use an arrow symbol (but I don't intend to write a patch, since this is not important to me ;-).

It's a trivial patch, though it's of marginal benefit. Also some scripts may be depending on the output from cp -v, so I'm not on for changing it.

cheers, Pádraig.