Re: The "set" utility outputs binary data

["Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)" <kp-pav@yandex.ru>]

07.12.2015, 13:26, "Peter Stephenson" <p.stephenson@samsung.com>:
> On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:08:44 -0800
> Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>>  On Dec 4, 9:56pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>>  }
>>  } This seems to be going the right way; let me know of any oddities or
>>  } unwanted side effects. Note a few "nice" representations have changed
>>  } to fit $'..' conventions.
>>
>>  I'll withhold judgment on whether I like this, though I must say I do
>>  prefer "^C" to "\C-c".
>
> If this is important enough, we can arrange two versions of nicechar /
> wcs_nicechar. The quickest change would be expanding the functions under
> different names to take a flag when passed from mb_niceformat(),
> together with a shim layer for other cases.
>
> (You can't seriously be complaining that "typeset -m IFS" now outputs
>
> IFS=$' \t\n\C-@'
>
> instead of raw binary, can you?)

Can’t this code be somehow combined with ${(q)} rather then ${(V)}? I would really prefer if ${(q)"$(echo $'\C-c')} resulted in $'\C-c' and not in $'\003'.

>
>>  In any case though, this has borked two of the test scripts:
>
> Not sure what I can have been testing.
>
> pws
>
> diff --git a/Test/D04parameter.ztst b/Test/D04parameter.ztst
> index a3c5d71..2b46e06 100644
> --- a/Test/D04parameter.ztst
> +++ b/Test/D04parameter.ztst
> @@ -396,9 +396,9 @@
>  >Instead Here I Am Stuck By The Computer
>
>    foo=$'\x7f\x00'
> - print ${(V)foo}
> + print -r -- ${(V)foo}
>  0:${(V)...}
> ->^?^@
> +>\C-?\C-@
>
>    foo='playing '\''stupid'\'' "games" \w\i\t\h $quoting.'
>    print -r ${(q)foo}
> diff --git a/Test/V09datetime.ztst b/Test/V09datetime.ztst
> index 63ff4ee..831421d 100644
> --- a/Test/V09datetime.ztst
> +++ b/Test/V09datetime.ztst
> @@ -69,6 +69,6 @@
>  >090
>  >1
>
> - print ${(V)"$(strftime $'%Y\0%m\0%d' 100000000)"}
> + print -r -- ${(V)"$(strftime $'%Y\0%m\0%d' 100000000)"}
>  0:Embedded nulls
> ->1973^@03^@03
> +>1973\C-@03\C-@03