Re: Text formatting for non-printable characters

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> Yes. Most localles treat "accented" letters (such as á, é, ç, etc.) as non-printable.
> As Portuguese uses lots of those letters, we prefer to print them without coding them.

You could use an "iscntrl" test to determine whether you code or just print.

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