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Richard Tobin wrote:
> How does more on these systems behave with Latin-1, UTF-8 and UTF-16
> files, all of which are already legal?
"More" assumes that its output is a terminal, so it refuses
to send strange C0 and C1 characters to it, for fear of making
the output unreadable. Whether "more" is encoding-sensitive,
or just assumes ASCII+, depends on the OS flavor.
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