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Re: Additional feature for the seq command
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Additional feature for the seq command |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:35:03 +0200 |
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Axel Liljencrantz <address@hidden> writes:
> This is an excellent question. I'm glad you asked, since I've given
> it a fair bit of thought. It might seem like a good idea to use the
> character ordering of the current locale, so you can generate
> sequences with all the strange characters of your locale in them. My
> seq patch is not implemented that way. It outputs the ASCII sequence.
What about EBCDIC hosts? The letters are not required to be consecutive.
Also, what about non-latin letters or multi-byte characters?
Andreas.
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