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Re: The "set" utility outputs binary data

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: The "set" utility outputs binary data
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:25:33 +0000
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:05:58 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that by default, "set" should quote non-printable characters
> (including invalid byte sequences, I assume).

It already does some sort of quoting, in fact.  It's probably just a
historical artifact that it doesn't do the latest and greatest sort.  So
I don't see any reason not to do this.  You could even consider this a
"minro feature".

pws

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