tr on OS X

[Brandon Allbery]

On Apr 3, 2010, at 00:31 , Scott Haneda wrote:
> If anyone can point me to a relevant thread, I would appreciate it.   
> I am working on a port and I keep getting a "tr: Illegal byte  
> sequence", which is no fault of MacPorts, but the answer to this may  
> lead me down the path of an explanation.


This is an I18N error.  If you're operating on binary data for some  
reason, you may want to force LANG=C so you don't get errors about  
illegal characters in the locale (in this case, it would almost  
certainly be UTF8 unless for some reason you're working in a CJK  
character set).

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH



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