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37 .Nd display non-printable characters in a visual format
46 is a filter for converting non-printable characters
47 into a visual representation.
51 the form is unique and invertible.
52 By default, all non-graphic
53 characters except space, tab, and newline are encoded.
54 A detailed description of the
55 various visual formats is given in
58 The options are as follows:
61 Turns off prepending of backslash before up-arrow control sequences
62 and meta characters, and disables the doubling of backslashes.
64 produces output which is neither invertible or precise, but does
65 represent a minimum of change to the input.
70 Request a format which displays a small subset of the
71 non-printable characters using C-style backslash sequences.
74 Also encode characters in
81 to fold output lines to foldwidth columns (default 80), like
84 that a hidden newline sequence is used, (which is removed
85 when inverting the file back to its original form with
87 If the last character in the encoded file does not end in a newline,
88 a hidden newline sequence is appended to the output.
90 the output usable with various editors and other utilities which
91 typically don't work with partial lines.
96 Encode using the URI encoding from RFC 1808.
99 Mark newlines with the visible sequence
101 followed by the newline.
103 Encode all shell meta characters (implies
109 Encode using the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding from RFC 2045.
114 flag which encodes using the
116 locale, removing any encoding dependencies caused by the current
117 locale settings specified in the environment.
119 Turns off any encoding, except for the fact that backslashes are
120 still doubled and hidden newline sequences inserted if
125 When combined with the
130 an invertible version of the
133 That is, the output can be unfolded by running the output through
136 Request a format which displays non-printable characters as
137 an octal number, \eddd.
140 Encode shell meta-characters that are non-white space or glob.
143 Only characters considered unsafe to send to a terminal are encoded.
144 This flag allows backspace, bell, and carriage return in addition
145 to the default space, tab and newline.
148 Tabs are also encoded.
151 White space (space-tab-newline) is also encoded.
154 .Sh MULTIBYTE CHARACTER SUPPORT
156 supports multibyte character input.
157 The encoding conversion is influenced by the setting of the
159 environment variable which defines the set of characters that can be
160 copied without encoding.
162 When 8-bit data is present in the input,
164 must be set to the correct locale or to the C locale.
165 If the locales of the data and the conversion are mismatched, multibyte
166 character recognition may fail and encoding will be performed byte-by-byte
169 .Bl -tag -width ".Ev LC_CTYPE"
171 Specify the locale of the input data.
172 Set to C if the input data locale is unknown.
183 Multibyte character support was added in