watch hebrew?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Yuval Hager wrote:
> if I try to run
> $ watch "echo שלום123"
> I just get the '123' on the page, Hebrew characters stripped.
>
> man watch says:
>   
>>       Non-printing characters are stripped from program output.
>>       Use "cat -v" as part of the  command  pipeline if you want to see
>>       them. 
>>     
>
> but if I try
> $ watch "echo שלום123|cat -v"
> I get something like:
> M-WM-)M-WM-^\M-WM-^UM-WM-^]123
>
> Any way to idea Hebrew characters under watch?
>
>   
This works for iso-8859-8 locale, but not for UTF-8 locale. I think it's 
a bug in both watch (for treating these characters as unprintables) and 
in cat (for the same reason).

I do believe they have problems dealing with multi-byte characters. I 
have nothing to suggest besides sending a bug report.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
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