[PATCH v2 1/1] paint visual host key with unicode box-drawing characters

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 22:49:15 AEST 2015


On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:43 PM,  <lists at wrant.com> wrote:
> A machine diff between one using ASCII and UTF-8 would yield not equal?
>
> Is it reasonable to only use UTF-8 ("pretty" chars) with a command line
> switch (forced) rather than as an override (implied) behaviour?

Please, lordie, yes. Unicode is *not your friend* for any kind of
binary or, in this case, display comparisons. It multiplies the
complexity of the relevant code.


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