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What the man page says about the -U option is either super confusing or outright wrong. You do need -U to make bidi formatting characters visible: $ less --
by jwilk 5y ago
What the man page says about the -U option is either super confusing or outright wrong.
You do need -U to make bidi formatting characters visible:
$ less --version | head -n1
less 551 (GNU regular expressions)
$ locale charmap
UTF-8
$ printf 'a\342\200\216b\n' | less -F
ab
$ printf 'a\342\200\216b\n' | less -U -F
a<U+200E>b