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1 year ago On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 07:39:14 -0700 Dave Koberstein @.***> wrote:
There seem to be a number of places where the backspace character is in the fortune text. When the fortune is sent in email it's not recognized as text and gets converted to an attachment. Also some viewers show ^H instead of rendering the backspace of the text that was intended to be deleted. (vim displays the ^H whereas less interprets it.)
One example is the 'definitions' file. Check "Gray's Law of Programming:". Also this picks up the affected lines: grep -P '[\b]' definitions
It seems like most examples originally had some underscore syntax that comes through as "_^H'.
Maybe we want this and fortune should have an option to convert the output into plain text?
thanks! I'll see what we can do.
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There seem to be a number of places where the backspace character is in the fortune text. When the fortune is sent in email it's not recognized as text and gets converted to an attachment. Also some viewers show ^H instead of rendering the backspace of the text that was intended to be deleted. (vim displays the ^H whereas less interprets it.)
One example is the 'definitions' file. Check "Gray's Law of Programming:". Also this picks up the affected lines: grep -P '[\b]' definitions
It seems like most examples originally had some underscore syntax that comes through as "_^H'.
Maybe we want this and fortune should have an option to convert the output into plain text?