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| Edit | Post #296244 |
Post edited: Mention unvis |
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A: Safe handling and display of untrusted data in the terminal How about BSD `vis`? It's basically perfect for this. It translates all unprintable characters into escape sequences like `\^C` or (for characters above 128) `\M-A`. A corresponding `unvis` program can translate it back (it's unambiguous because `vis` also doubles backslashes in the input). ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #296243 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: How to type letters for non Latin alphabets? We're using KDE, and it supports switching between different keyboard layouts. You can add more layouts (and change the shortcut to switch between them if you like) in the settings. Stuff like Japanese is a little trickier. That needs an IME, "input method editor". (Personally we use fcitx5-mo... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291288 |
"technically json is already valid yaml"... the YAML people SAY that, but can you actually do that? I think we tried it once and it failed miserably.
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