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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: The "set" utility outputs binary data
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:05:58 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> I think that by default, "set" should quote non-printable characters
> (including invalid byte sequences, I assume).

It already does some sort of quoting, in fact.  It's probably just a
historical artifact that it doesn't do the latest and greatest sort.  So
I don't see any reason not to do this.  You could even consider this a
"minro feature".

pws