Feature changed by: Paul Dufresne (dufrp) Feature #309187, revision 2 Title: Stop terminal giberish on cat binary_files (Shift out character 0x0e) openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Paul Dufresne (dufrp) Description: I sometimes screw my terminal by mistakenly cating a binary file. - If you don't know what I means, open a terminal and type: - echo $'0x0e' + If you don't know what I means, open a terminal (e.g. ctrl-alt-F2, not + gnome-terminal) and type: + echo $'\x0e' Then do ls To fix it type: - echo $'/0x0f' + echo $'\x0f' This is Shift Out and Shift in characters, as explained in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_Out_and_Shift_In_characters I would think this is pretty much not used anymore. And that it cause more trouble than it helps today, now that we begin to use Unicode - characters. So I propose stopping interpreting the Shift Out character - (0x0e). + characters. So I propose to ignore the Shift Out character (0x0e). + Well, an alternative could be to automatically do a Shift In character + after newline or after 200 characters, but that feels ugly. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309187