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Date: Fri,  3 May 2013 18:33:42 +0200
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Octets regexp
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On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:15:27AM -0400, Tristan wrote:
>
> tcs -f 8859-1
>
> will take your _binary_ files, and replace the bytes 0x80-0xff with the
> unicode points U0080-U00ff, so you can use the standard regexps and tools
> on them. and just convert back afterwards.
>

OK, mea culpa... since I'm french, I focused on the latin1 thinking
this has something to do with my language and the custom to deal with
latin1 on other systems.

I guess I could create a keyboard that produces not UTF-8 but bytes
so to have a mean to input bytes (without resorting to printf or
whatever). Remains the problem of the rendering (or create a
special font that displays octal, hexadecimal or whatever playing
with the index of the glyphes; but this will work for octets, and will
be more difficult if one wants to deal with wydes; impossible with
tetras and octas).

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