2003 I looked at fmt.c to make it 8 bit clean for 4.8-RELEASE, I was conservative & my patches did just a subset, I recall. http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/fmt/ I maintained patches since. 2010 I posted to hackers@ Tue May 25 11:29:20 UTC 2010 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031901.html & got 1 comment: Christian's from Wed May 26 18:05:53 UTC 2010, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031927.html I'm still using & maintaining patches through to current & 10.0-BETA3, Tonight 2 BSD people (cc'd) asked I'd sent patches, so this also a send-pr. WRT Christian's comment from Wed May 26 18:05:53 UTC 2010, I don't know about ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8, (I dislike & avoid national char set stuff as much as possible), but I want to be able to edit files that simultaneously contain eg all of English German & French etc, so setting some var to eg just German would be inappropriate. 8 bit clean would be ideal, next best would be my patches I suppose. We no longer use 7 bit teletypes, & no longer need parity, so fmt.c could be made pretty much 8 bit clean, (apart from eg Null etc which'd doubtless be too much hastle). - Or it can be tweaked to allow some chars as I recall I did, Options presumably are still the 4 from Tue May 25 11:29:20 UTC 2010 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031901.html I assume either adopting Solution 1 (Discard "& 0x7f" ) or Solution 2 (my patches) would not disrupt locale users, but would stop fmt failing on some 8 bit text. Fix: Look at my posting http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031901.html & my patches http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/fmt/ How-To-Repeat: Read the code
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