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PATCH: use hex instead of octal to display larger non-printable characters in test output

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public at khwilliamson

Nov 20, 2009, 4:17 PM

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PATCH: use hex instead of octal to display larger non-printable characters in test output

Octal is traditional and fine for displaying the low controls, but for
characters whose ordinal is larger, hex is more traditional.

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0001-Use-hex-instead-of-octal-for-larger-code-points.patch (1.14 KB)

rgs at consttype

Nov 23, 2009, 2:44 AM

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Re: PATCH: use hex instead of octal to display larger non-printable characters in test output [In reply to]

2009/11/21 karl williamson <public [at] khwilliamson>:
> Octal is traditional and fine for displaying the low controls, but for
> characters whose ordinal is larger, hex is more traditional.

Thanks, applied to bleadperl as 1cfccccd91dcb8384e07fecd6d80c2f1956492ac.

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