Mention in the BUGS section that write and wall bogusly use the sender's

LC_CTYPE setting instead of the receiver's when determining which
characters are printable.
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Tim J. Robbins 2004-07-17 04:15:27 +00:00
parent 3d1a01487a
commit 70ad92ab84
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=132278
2 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ A
.Nm
command appeared in PWB UNIX.
.Sh BUGS
The sender's
.Ev LC_CTYPE
setting is used to determine which characters are safe to write to a
terminal, not the receiver's (which
.Nm
has no way of knowing).
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility does not recognize multibyte characters.

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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" @(#)write.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd July 3, 2004
.Dd July 17, 2004
.Dt WRITE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ A
command appeared in
.At v1 .
.Sh BUGS
The sender's
.Ev LC_CTYPE
setting is used to determine which characters are safe to write to a
terminal, not the receiver's (which
.Nm
has no way of knowing).
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility does not recognize multibyte characters.