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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Apple Terminal
Date: 17:20 on 31 Jul 2006

I have the terminal set on ISO-8859-1. If I force it to 70 characters I see
the following:

$ perl -le 'print "e1 " x 25'
e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e
1 e1 
$ perl -le 'print "\xe91 " x 25'
é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1
é1 é1 



WTF? Why is the hateful thing doing some sort of word wrapping whenever
the line has a non-ASCII character?
Why can't I disable it?
Which moron thinks that this is useful behaviour?
Where do they live?
Can I claim "provocation" as my defence against any charges that might arise?

Nicholas Clark

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