Re: isprint() under utf-8 locale

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:37:27PM +0100, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> in theory, yes
> but often it is used to filter out characters that should not
> go straight to the terminal, where they can be a source of
> a DOS attack (colour codes, switching terminal into
> graphics mode, backspaces - I happened to be a victim of such 
> a joke a long time ago).

ASCII escape values are still recognized as nonprintable, so none of
these are a problem.  (UTF-8 terminals shouldn't have a "graphics mode",
of course.)

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